Marian Wright Edelman

Our 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.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

So 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 justice were divisible.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. _x000D_ Count on earning them by hard work _x000D_ and perseverance.

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

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.

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

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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