"The question is not whether we can afford……" — Marian Wright Edelman
"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to."
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Marian Wright Edelman
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121 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman has 121 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of…
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More Afford Quotes
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America…
— Lester Bangs
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these…
— Lester Bangs
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with…
— George Matthew Adams
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
— Dave Barry
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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream…
— Joe Barton
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
— Theodore Bikel
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
— Bono
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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