Marian Wright Edelman
Quotations
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“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
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“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
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“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we…
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“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
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“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“In politics, there are no friends.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we…
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“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we…
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“I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“I’m sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it’s outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“If you don’t 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
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“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
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. – Marian Wright Edelman
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