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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
— Gerald Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Let all children come unto me.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know.
— Rush Limbaugh
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
— Marian Wright Edelman
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ...
— Marian Wright Edelman
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
— Marian Wright Edelman
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
— Marian Wright Edelman
You really can change the world if you care enough.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
— Marian Wright Edelman
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
— Marian Wright Edelman
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I try to be a person of faith.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
— Marian Wright Edelman
You just do it one step at a time.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Service is what life is all about.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
— Marian Wright Edelman
In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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— Amber Le Bon
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
— Marian Wright Edelman
If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help ...
— Marian Wright Edelman
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
— Hope Edelman
Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for
— Marian Wright Edelman
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,
— Gerald Edelman
Don't be afraid of hard work.
— Marian Wright Edelman
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In
— Hope Edelman
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
— Marian Wright Edelman
People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
— Marian Wright Edelman
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
— Marek Edelman
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.
— Gerald Edelman
Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
— Marian Wright Edelman
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Hope is not a financial plan.
— Ric Edelman
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
— Ric Edelman
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
— Marian Wright Edelman
[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
— Marian Wright Edelman
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Every child's life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Join the Revolution! Be your own Brand of Sexy!
— Susan L. Edelman
Hope is the best contraceptive.
— Marian Wright Edelman
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
— Hope Edelman
No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.
— David Louis Edelman
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.
— David Louis Edelman
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.
— Hope Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I need to work outside government, on my own.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
— Marian Wright Edelman
You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
— Gerald Edelman
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.
— Rob Gronkowski
People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
— Marian Wright Edelman
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.
— Ric Edelman
In politics, there are no friends.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors.
Count on earning them by hard work
and perseverance. — Marian Wright Edelman
Count on earning them by hard work
and perseverance. — Marian Wright Edelman
The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.
— Ric Edelman
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
— Murray Edelman
Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
— Marian Wright Edelman