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Danh ngôn của Marian Wright Edelman (Sứ mệnh: 6)

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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.
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
In politics, there are no friends.
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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.
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.