“Listening to children is the most basic way to respect their rights.”
"To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Hope
"You really can change the world if you care enough."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Motivation
"The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Belief in Self
"If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world for the better."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education