Top 61 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

In politics, there are no friends.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Service is what life is all about.

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.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.