Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
"Service is what life is all about."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Life, Service)
"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
(Related: Faith, Life, People, Values, Community, Driving, Liberals, Talking)
"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
(Related: Challenge, Community, Justice, Nation, Sense)
"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
(Related: Trust, People, Children, Future, Will)
"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
(Related: Home, Money)
"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
(Related: Time, Difference, Trying)
"You didn't 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
(Related: Choice, Parents, Will)
"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
(Related: Time, Life, Purpose, Being, Service)
"You really can change the world if you care enough."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Change, Care, World)
"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
(Related: Society, America, Class, Gender, Help, Race)
"People who don't 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
(Related: People, Act, Credit, Vote)
"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
(Related: Children, Experts, Forget, Parents)
"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Dreams, Rain, Right)
"No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it."
- Marian Wright Edelman
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Money, Work, Power, Soul, Help, Night, Sleep)
"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
(Related: Change, Time, Obligation, World)
"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Quiet)
"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
(Related: People, Martin, Waiting)
"If we think we have ours and don't 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
(Related: Money, Time, Americans, Effort, Help, Solution)
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Children)
"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
(Related: Countries, End, Leaders, Poverty, states, United)
"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Education, Community, World)
"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Education, Survival, America, Today)
"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Struggle)
"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Life, Being, Children, College, Will)
"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Right)
"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Money, Values, America, Priorities)
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Day, Trying)