Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Service is what life is all about.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.