John D.S. Allen: “the pain isn't just with one student or a couple of students, it spreads across the campus.”

I think we would be facing civil military crisis the like of which we have not seen in this country before.

I think Pope Francis is the new Nelson Mandela. That he's the new sort of voice of moral conscience on the global stage that people recognize as sort of being able to indicate where the side of the angle stands.

I am here today as a young person, a student, a voter, and a passionate advocate of voting rights.

This is an opportunity for reform from the bottom up. And it's an opportunity for leadership from the top down.