Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
Marian Wright Edelman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Service
Emphasizing
Models
Ethic
Role
Philanthropy
Roles
Consciously
Must
Consumption
Caring
Ethics
Serve
More quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
Marian Wright Edelman
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
Marian Wright Edelman
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Marian Wright Edelman
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Marian Wright Edelman
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
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
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman
[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
Marian Wright Edelman
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
Marian Wright Edelman
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
Marian Wright Edelman
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
Marian Wright Edelman
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
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
In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
Marian Wright Edelman
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
Marian Wright Edelman
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Wright Edelman
People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
Marian Wright Edelman
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
Marian Wright Edelman
