Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Wright Edelman 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. - Marian Wright Edelman 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -