On a night like this
Loon, Bohol
October 2011
Loon, Bohol
October 2011
"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others." ~Marian Wright Edelman (c 1939)
OTHERS
"A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"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." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"No person has the right to rain on your dreams." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on the planet." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place." ~Marian Wright Edelman (2001)
"The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"We are living in a time of unbearable dissonance between promise and performance; between good politics and good policy; between professed and practiced family values; between racial creed and racial deed; between calls for community and rampant individualism and greed; and between our capacity to prevent and alleviate human deprivation and disease and our political and spiritual will to do so." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"We must not ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences we cannot foresee." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, "Let all children come unto me." ~Marian Wright Edelman
"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be." ~Marian Wright Edelman
BIOGRAPHY
Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund, was the first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi state bar. Marian Wright Edelman has published her ideas in several books. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours was a surprising success.
Source: Women's History
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