I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
Marian Wright EdelmanYou can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.
Marian Wright EdelmanYou can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
Marian Wright Edelman