Words of Inspiration and Motivation to me

Lilian Katz, co-founder of Project Approach, said, "Children, all children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences."

Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, said, "A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone.  We are it.  It is up to us.  It is up to you." 

Another quote from Ms. Edelman:  "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."

Louise Derman Sparks, from week 2, said, "I had a built in passion that it was important to make a real contribution to the world; to fix all the injustices in the world.  The passion to create a safe, more unjust world."

Sandy Escobido:  "We as professionals in the early childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child's life for the better."