Quote

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

Marian Wright Edelman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Never
Segregation
Occurred
Challenge
Challenges
Going

More quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

Image
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Each American must 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.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
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
Image
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
Marian Wright Edelman