Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Serving Others

Quotes about: Serving Others

• 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

  Dog, Justice, African American

• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

• Service is the rent we pay for living.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Helping Others, Pay, Volunteerism

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, Women

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

• 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

  Greatness, Compassion, Greed

• 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

  Change, Kings, People

• 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

  Work, Grateful, Thinking

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