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.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

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.