"Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night." ― Marian Wright Edelman Topic(s): Family More From Marian Wright Edelman "It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success." "Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America." "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." More In Family "Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!"― Alanis Morissette "Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God."― Christopher Love "Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American."― Ron Wyden