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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. — Marian Wright Edelman

Education is a precondition to survival in America today. — Marian Wright 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

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions. — Marian Wright Edelman

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. — Marian Wright Edelman

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. — 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

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one. — 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

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

I try to act out of faith. — 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

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. — Marian Wright Edelman

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. — Marian Wright Edelman

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. — Marian Wright 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

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency — Marian Wright Edelman

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did. — 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

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. — Marian Wright Edelman

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. — Marian Wright Edelman

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for — Marian Wright Edelman

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem. — Marian Wright 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

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders! — Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for living. — Marian Wright Edelman

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. — Marian Wright Edelman

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. — Marian Wright Edelman

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. — Marian Wright Edelman

Hope is the best contraceptive. — Marian Wright Edelman

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them. — Marian Wright Edelman

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. — Marian Wright Edelman

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list. — Marian Wright Edelman

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — 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

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors.
Count on earning them by hard work
and perseverance. — Marian Wright Edelman

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. — Marian Wright 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

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. — Marian Wright Edelman

In politics, there are no friends. — Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up. — Marian Wright Edelman

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman

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

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. — Marian Wright Edelman

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice. — 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

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

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. — Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given. — Marian Wright Edelman

I need to work outside government, on my own. — Marian Wright Edelman

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind. — 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