Famous Marian Wright Edelman Quotations

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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."
by Marian Wright Edelman
"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."
by Marian Wright Edelman
"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."
by Marian Wright Edelman
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
by Marian Wright Edelman
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
by Marian Wright Edelman
"You really can change the world if you care enough."
by Marian Wright Edelman
"The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe."
by Marian Wright Edelman


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