Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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

• Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors.
  Count on earning them by hard work
  and perseverance.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Waiting

• There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Men, Waiting, Grace

• I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Waiting, Magic, Use

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

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