Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
An American activist for the rights of children.
(1939 - )
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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.
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Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
[Friendship]
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Don't be afraid of hard work.
[Work]
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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
[Education]
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
[Education]
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
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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.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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.
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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.
[Positive]
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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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.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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