Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Wright Edelman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Willing
Least
Keep
Money
Kids
Institutionalize
Home
Foster
Spend
Amount
More quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
Marian Wright Edelman
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
Marian Wright Edelman
Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
Marian Wright Edelman
History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
Marian Wright Edelman
Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
Marian Wright Edelman
We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
Marian Wright Edelman
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
Marian Wright Edelman
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Marian Wright Edelman
Don't assume a door is closed push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
Marian Wright Edelman
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
Marian Wright Edelman
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
Marian Wright Edelman
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 and the very dream that is America.
Marian Wright Edelman
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
Marian Wright Edelman
I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
Marian Wright Edelman
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
Marian Wright Edelman
Hope is the best contraceptive.
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
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright Edelman
