Marian Wright Edelman quotes

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

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.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

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.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

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.

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.