“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life th...” — Marian Wright Edelman Quote

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

“No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.”

“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.”

“I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.”

“I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.”

“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?”