Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

- Marian Wright Edelman

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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting. - Marian Wright Edelman

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. - Marian Wright Edelman

This nation has squandered away four years and billions of dollars in education funding. Our children have been tested to death, forced to regurgitate, and at the end of the day they haven't learned to do basic reading and math or much less learned to think. - Marian Wright Edelman