Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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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.
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I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
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I try to act out of faith.
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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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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.
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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
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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.
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Don't be afraid of hard work.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
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I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
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So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
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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.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.