"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem." ― Marian Wright Edelman Topic(s): Experience More From Marian Wright Edelman "Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." "No person has the right to rain on your dreams." "If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." More In Experience "I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release."― Joaquin Phoenix "All that I know I learned after I was thirty."― Georges Clemenceau "My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise."― Colin Powell