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. Marian Wright Edelman More Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman More Quotes From Marian Wright Edelman So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done. Marian Wright Edelman gratitude depression thankful The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight. Marian Wright Edelman poverty fighting war 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. Marian Wright Edelman juvenile-justice home kids You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit. Marian Wright Edelman achievement mind giving 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 country children thinking In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make. Marian Wright Edelman differences bigs trying Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them. Marian Wright Edelman kids children needs Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice. Marian Wright Edelman courageous injustice children I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back. Marian Wright Edelman giving long children Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up. Marian Wright Edelman bad-day trying thinking It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. Marian Wright Edelman poverty united-states children Each American must 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. Marian Wright Edelman race class america When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights. Marian Wright Edelman rights country moving Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success. Marian Wright Edelman suffering earth children I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important. Marian Wright Edelman grateful work thinking It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be. Marian Wright Edelman drug law people You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. Marian Wright Edelman parent choices kind Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. Marian Wright Edelman black-women rocks black I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against. Marian Wright Edelman growing-up atlanta thinking Service is what life is all about. Marian Wright Edelman service-culture fortune-cookie famous-inspirational
