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Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Dont feel entitled to anything you didnt sweat and struggle for. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Education is a precondition to survival in America today. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
If we dont stand up for children, then we dont stand for much. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
If we think we have ours and dont owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
If you dont like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Never work just for money or for power. They wont save your soul or help you sleep at night. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
People who dont vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Service is what life is all about. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peoples children. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
You didnt have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
You really can change the world if you care enough. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Youre not obligated to win. Youre obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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