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)
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. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
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. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
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. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
You really can change the world if you care enough. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
You can't be what you can't see. (Marian Wright Edelman)
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
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. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. 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. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
The odds continue to be stacked against children of color who made up nearly three-quarters of all poor children in 2018. With nearly one in four poor, they are more than 2.5 times more likely to be poor than White children. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. (Marian Wright Edelman)
Service is what life is all about. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Education is a precondition to survival in America today. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman