More From Marian Wright Edelman
- "I’m sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it’s outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education."
- "Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."
- "Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."
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- "In the area we’re discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."― Norman Lear
- "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."― Leo Buscaglia
- "After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."― Evelyn Underhill