Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

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

Life, Time, Service

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

Trust, Future, Children

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.
Marian Wright Edelman

Enough, Nation, Against

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
Marian Wright Edelman

Struggle, Sweat, Entitled

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman

Graduation, Life, Children

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

Time, Money, Help

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Marian Wright Edelman

Yourself, Enough, Others

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

Waiting, Gone, King

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Marian Wright Edelman

Money, America, Problem

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
Marian Wright Edelman

Children, Stand

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
Marian Wright Edelman

Purpose, Weapons, Redeeming

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.
Marian Wright Edelman

Parents, Become, Again

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

Age, Greatest, Children

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

Best, Forget, Children

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

Freedom, Justice, Different

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Future, Fight

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Marian Wright Edelman

Work, Money, Power

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

Time, Daily, Ignore

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

Future, Children, Nation

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Leaving, Others

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Strong, Children

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Today, America

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

Education, Angry, Care

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

Change, Time, Step

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman

Dreams, Rain, Person

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Nationality: American

Born: June 6, 1939

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