Daniel Keys Moran Quotes

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

I just try to fight for the underdog, and try to fight for those who are locked out of the sunshine of opportunity.

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

I really try to focus on organizations, twofold, one that help people and/or beings that don't have other means of help. Particularly if they're hospitalized children, sick children, children that don't have homes, children that can't go to school, you know that's the future of this country and the future of this planet.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

And if I could get the mayors, and the governors, and the president to look into the eyes of the five-year-olds of this nation, dressed in old raggedy clothes, whose zippers are broken but whose dreams are still alive, they would know what I know-that children need people to fight for them. To stand with them on the most dangerous streets, in the dirtiest hallways, in their darkest hours.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Give the girls a chance.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Education ... is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

I'm into people, especially kids and making sure they have a fair shake and making sure they reach their potential. So that's important to me.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

I was always a champion of the minority, of the underdog.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.