“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.  Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

“So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.” 
 Marian Wright Edelman http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marian_wright_edelman.html#SCocBHwQ63DKlRDg.99