Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

"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."

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."

"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."

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."

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

"You really can change the world if you care enough."

"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."