Don't Count Out Marian Wright Edelman, Because

Investing In [children] Is Not A National Luxury Or A National Choice. It's A National Necessity. If The Foundation Of Your House Is Crumbling, You Don't Say You Can't Afford To Fix It While You're Building Astronomically Expensive Fences To Protect It From Outside Enemies. The Issue Is Not Are We Going To Pay - It's Are We Going To Pay Now, Up Front, Or Are We Going To Pay A Whole Lot More Later On.

The Challenge Of Social Justice Is To Evoke A Sense Of Community That We Need To Make Our Nation A Better Place, Just As We Make It A Safer Place.

We're Spending, On Average, Three Times More For Prison Than For Public-school Pupils. That's The Dumbest Investment Policy. It Doesn't Make Us Safer.

I Try To Be A Person Of Faith.

[rosa Louise] Parks Used To Say, "everybody Looks At Me Because I Sat Down Once In Montgomery, But The Real Hero Is A Woman Named Septima Clark."she Created The Citizenship Schools [where Civil-rights Activists Taught Basic Literacy And Political Education Classes].