Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. -Marian Wright Edelman Graduation
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. -Marian Wright Edelman Society
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. -Marian Wright Edelman Education
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. -Marian Wright Edelman Education
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. -Marian Wright Edelman Time
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. -Marian Wright Edelman Health
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. -Marian Wright Edelman Trust
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. -Marian Wright Edelman Freedom
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. -Marian Wright Edelman Future
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. -Marian Wright Edelman Teen
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. -Marian Wright Edelman Independence
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. -Marian Wright Edelman Change
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. -Marian Wright Edelman Money
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. -Marian Wright Edelman Future
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. -Marian Wright Edelman Change
