Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who wer...

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or prof...

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make e...

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than ...

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Don't be afraid of hard work.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth...

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just...

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all y...

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in yo...

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fe...

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in...

We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differ...

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom a...

I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things...

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left...

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peopl...

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even th...

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing,...

If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just...

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.