Famous Quotes / Marian Wright Edelman
15 Quotations by Marian Wright Edelman
- 1. Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or prof ...
- 2. Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a p ...
- 3. Don't be afraid of hard work.
- 4. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than ...
- 5. Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
- 6. If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then w ...
- 7. If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just ...
- 8. No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
- 9. Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in yo ...
- 10. Service is what life is all about; it never occurred to me not to be involved in the community.
- 11. Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
- 12. The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left ...
- 13. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster ...
- 14. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily diffe ...
- 15. You really can change the world if you care enough.