Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Doors, Yesterday, Mind

• Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, America, Survival

• 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 get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, Upset, Trying

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

• Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Unfinished Work, Long, Remembrance

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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