Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Top 87 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Marian Wright Edelman on Wise Famous Quotes.
Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ...
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help ...
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.
People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.