Best Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman (Top 10)
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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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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.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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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.
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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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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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
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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.
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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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More Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.
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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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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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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.
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
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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.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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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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