Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. 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.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.