I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
From Marian Wright Edelman
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
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