Marian Wright Edleman: Leave No Children Behind
I am deeply honoured to participate in this State of the World Forum and thank those who brought us together.
We are living in a time of unbearable dissonance between promise and performance; between good politics and good policy; between professed and practiced family values; between racial creed and racial deed; between calls for community and rampant individualism and greed; and between our capacity to prevent and alleviate human deprivation and disease and our political and spiritual will to do so.
