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 EdelmanPeople want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
Marian Wright EdelmanWe have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
Marian Wright EdelmanI grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.
Marian Wright Edelman