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Marian Wright Edelman quotes

American Activist June 6, 1939

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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
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "Understand and be confident that each of us can make a..."
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
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but..."
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
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad."
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad. Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "Education is a precondition to survival in America today."
Education is a precondition to survival in America today. Marian Wright Edelman
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. Marian Wright Edelman
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. Marian Wright Edelman
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
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
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy."
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right."
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm..."
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing. Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values..."
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. Marian Wright Edelman
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
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior..."
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. Marian Wright Edelman

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