Marian Wright Edelman Quotes - Page 2

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• You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

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  Determined, Ancestor

  "The March on Washington: 50th Anniversary – Marian Wright Edelman & Dr. Mary Frances Berry". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 27, 2013.

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• Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

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  Determination, Attitude, Character

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.16, Beacon Press

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• 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.

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  Doors, Yesterday, Mind

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• Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

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  Caring, Differences, Making A Difference

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• If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

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  Interesting, Life Is, Easy

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• Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Add

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Children, Godly

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• If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

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  Children, Ifs

  "Reading Between the Lines of Arne Duncan’s ‘Major’ Speech" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

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  Stupid, Humorous, Moral

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• It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

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  Children, Community, Needs

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• It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

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  Education, Children, Life Lesson

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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  Inspiring, Perseverance, Work

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• The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Growing Up, Kids

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• What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

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  Cheating, Children, Lying

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• 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.

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  Change, Kings, People

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• We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

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  Peace, Money, America

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• It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

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  Stress, America, Color

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

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  Racism, Levels, Discrimination

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• Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

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  Children, Gun, Years

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• We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

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  School, Average, Three

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

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  Struggle, Responsibility, Volunteer

  David Halberstam, Marian Wright Edelman, Sadako N. Ogata (1991). “Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?”

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• Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

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  Inspirational, Kings, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Children, America, Long

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

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  Graduation, Kindness, Children

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