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The first black woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1964, Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, and the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Her father, Arthur Wright, required his children to perform community service work as part of their chores and Edelman today works tirelessly for the rights of poor, handicapped, and minority children. Edelman has written a number of books about kids, family and social responsibility, including the bestseller ‘The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours’  (1992).

“Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.”

“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”

“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.”

“Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.”

“When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn’t say only rich children, or white children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, ‘Let all children come unto me’.”

“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And 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.”

- Marian Wright Edelman  (1939- )

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