Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Segregation

Quotes about: Segregation

• It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Challenges, Segregation

• Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Lying, Book

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Atlanta

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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