233 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

The 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.

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.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

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.

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

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