Quotes Marian Wright Edelman

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatm...

Being considerate of others will take your children further ...

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggl...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today....

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leavi...

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to ...

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for m...

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or ...

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You h...

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself...

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it i...

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your...

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior w...

No person has the right to rain on your dreams....

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is...

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who...

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of hu...

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose...

Service is what life is all about....

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of commu...

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will ...

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a ...

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

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big ...

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?...