Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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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.
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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 and the very dream that is America.
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I try to act out of faith.
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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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Don't be afraid of hard work.
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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
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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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Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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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.
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We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.
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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.