"No person has the right to rain on your dreams. " ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥23SharePinTweet0 SharesRainy Quotes
" Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥19SharePinTweet0 SharesEducation Quotes
" We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥22SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, "Let all children come unto me."" ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You really can change the world if you care enough." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. " ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. " ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction? " ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" My faith has been the driving thing of my life. 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 ♥25SharePinTweet1 SharesLife 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 ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
