More From Marian Wright Edelman
- "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."
- "We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."
- "Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it’s not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter."
More In Happiness
- "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy."― Fanny Burney
- "Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."― Polly Toynbee
- "The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."― Arthur C. Brooks