Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Add, Earth, Bigger

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors”, p.7, Beacon Press

• I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Thinking, Talking, People

• We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Money, America

• As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Believe, People

• Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Moral, Moral Values, Values

• Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Hands, Community, Black

• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

• You 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 Edelman

  Teacher, Children, School

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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