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If there is a conflict between the security of the sovereign state and the security of the human commonwealth, the human commonwealth comes first. If there is a conflict between the well-being of the nation and the well-being of humanity, the well-being of humanity comes first. If there is a conflict between the needs of this generation and the needs of all later generations, the needs of the later generations come first. If there is a conflict between public edict and private conscience, private conscience comes first. If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. Norman Cousins		Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few. Marian Wright Edelman

Quote Author: Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.

Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.

Other Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

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

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

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.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

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

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.