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All Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
64% of people like this quote
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Marian Wright Edelman
60% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
57% of people like this quote
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
56% of people like this quote
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
56% of people like this quote
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Marian Wright Edelman
55% of people like this quote
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
54% of people like this quote
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Marian Wright Edelman
53% of people like this quote
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
52% of people like this quote
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman
51% of people like this quote
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marian Wright Edelman
50% of people like this quote
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