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.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it’s the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
If it’s wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it’s wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.
Children don’t vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help...
Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
You can achieve much in life if you don’t mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.
Hope is the best contraceptive.
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
Don’t count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
We 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.
I 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.
In politics, there are no friends.