“Nobody quite put it that way before. Let’s look at it as an economic return and compare investing in at-risk kids, scholarships, and job training to building sports stadiums and auto factories. It convinced a lot of business people. Companies have to worry about the quality of the workforce, crime in their communities, the quality of life when they recruit employees from their base.” Art Rolnick

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children." Marian Wright Edelman

 

"Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter."Marian Wright Edelman