Top 61 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

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.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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.

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

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

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.