Marian Wright EdelmanService is what life is all about.361Life
Marian Wright EdelmanChildren under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. ✨ Be Ca… ▶361Thought
Marian Wright EdelmanService is the rent we pay for living. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (2013). The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, p.15, Beacon Press364Life
Marian Wright EdelmanI hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help. ✨ 'Who’s Looking for Me?': God’s and Am… ▶342HopeHumanitySadness
Marian Wright EdelmanI think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.365HumanityThought
Marian Wright EdelmanIt is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.344Time
Marian Wright EdelmanOrdinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.377Reflection
Marian Wright EdelmanOur true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. ✨ Ask … ▶355Truth
Marian Wright EdelmanA nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. ✨ Be Careful What You Cut by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huff… ▶366HopeTime
Marian Wright EdelmanWhen Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a me… ▶312Truth
Marian Wright EdelmanUnderstand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.301Love
Marian Wright EdelmanThe question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (2013). The Measure of our Success: A Letter … ▶356Humanity
Marian Wright EdelmanThe legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.346Humanity
Marian Wright EdelmanAmidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.313Humanity
Marian Wright EdelmanYou can't be what you can't see.357Reflection
Marian Wright EdelmanWe 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. ✨ Society's Pushed-Out C… ▶313HumanitySadness
Marian Wright EdelmanI 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.357Thought
Marian Wright EdelmanBe a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (2013). Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, p.7,… ▶358Time
Marian Wright EdelmanSo 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 just… ▶3710Humanity
Marian Wright EdelmanThis act will leave a moral blot on his presidency336Humor
Marian Wright EdelmanYou can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.303LifeThought
Marian Wright EdelmanWe 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 ca… ▶314ThoughtTime
Marian Wright EdelmanIt 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 n… ▶359Time
Marian Wright EdelmanIf parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (2013).… ▶315Humor
Marian Wright EdelmanChildren don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.359Reading
Marian Wright EdelmanEach American must 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 societ… ▶337Humanity
Marian Wright EdelmanI was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing … ▶261LifeSadnessTime
Marian Wright EdelmanWe 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 a… ▶251Love
Marian Wright EdelmanNo person has the right to rain on your dreams. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (2013). The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, p.29, Beacon Press317Death
Marian Wright EdelmanThe challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. ✨ Leisure as transformatio… ▶317Reading
