"Investing in [children] is not a national luxury……" — Marian Wright Edelman
"Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on."
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Marian Wright Edelman
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121 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights…
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not…
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Service is what life is all about.
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Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher,…
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something…
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time…
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn…
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I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and…
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do…
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or…
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left…
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