All Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.”
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
“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.”
“If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.”
“I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.”
“I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. 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.”
“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.”
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
“The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.”
“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.”
“I try to act out of faith.”
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
“Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.”
“The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.”