Words matter. These are the best Marian Wright Edelman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.
We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don’t do it. What is it about America? It says we don’t value children and families. We are hypocrites.
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
I’m sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it’s outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
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.
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.
In politics, there are no friends.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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.
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.
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy’s assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
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.
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
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.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
I try to act out of faith.
Service is what life is all about.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
