10 notable quotes by 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.
- Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
- 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.
- So much of America’s tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people’s children–as if justice were divisible.
- If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.
- 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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