Marian Wright Edelman

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

#community #education #found #improving #leaving

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

#add #big #big difference #cannot #daily

Education is a precondition to survival in America today. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#education #precondition #survival #today

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#just #just do it #like #obligation #step

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#come #gandhi #gone #king #lot

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#redeeming #socially #weapons

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

#central #everything #family #i #i am

Children 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. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#age group #america #brain #children #development

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

#better #child #committed #countries #demand

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#children #does #future #nation #stand