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Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

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 (1939 - )
 
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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 (1939 - )
 
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
Source: Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
 
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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 (1939 - )
Source: Families in Peril, 1987.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
Source: Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
Source: Politics as Symbolic Action
More quotes about: fear, history, hope, politics, violence
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
Source: Psychology Today, 1975.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
Source: The Measure of Our Success, 1992.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )
 
More quotes about: life, purpose, service, time
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