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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Learning, Community

Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

Marian Wright Edelman

Children, Community, Needs

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

Marian Wright Edelman

Peace, Home, Community

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

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.

Marian Wright Edelman

Peace, Justice, Community

"Leisure as transformation: Volume 4". Book by Christopher R. Edginton, Peter Chen, p. 87, 2008.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

Children, Hands, Community

"The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.