Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? Marian Wright Edelman More Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman More Quotes From Marian Wright Edelman I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. Marian Wright Edelman talking people thinking Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. Marian Wright Edelman rights education children Whoever said anyone has the right to give up. Marian Wright Edelman giving-up said giving You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman black-history change inspirational You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman women-leadership one-step-at-a-time steps Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life. Marian Wright Edelman determination attitude character Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways. Marian Wright Edelman making-a-difference differences caring Democracy is not a spectator sport. Marian Wright Edelman women democracy sports Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Marian Wright Edelman kindness graduation children Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind. Marian Wright Edelman mind yesterday doors Hope is the best contraceptive. Marian Wright Edelman contraceptives birth birth-control You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. Marian Wright Edelman originality born trying There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people. Marian Wright Edelman demand sound people 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 independence vision justice We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements. Marian Wright Edelman movement leader justice When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found. Marian Wright Edelman fighting responsibility children The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. Marian Wright Edelman care kids children Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Marian Wright Edelman perseverance hard-work waiting It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. Marian Wright Edelman jobs mean school 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
