55 ordspråk av Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman föddes den June 6th 1939 - US social reformer
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 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. |
| Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. |
| Bill was passionate, vocal and risk-taking about the enduring values, peace and justice. |
| Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. |
| Education is a precondition to survival in America today. |
| Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. |
| Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. |
| Hurricane Katrina ripped the mask off of the poverty and festering racism and what I call the 'new slavery,' the pipeline to prison so many youth experience. Yet our national attention span is abysmally short. Kirk Franklin and CDF are in this battle together for the long-term. We look forward to joining ranks with millions of Americans to stand for justice for children and the poor. |
| I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important. |
| If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. |
| If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. |
| 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. |
| If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. |
| 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. |
| It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that "where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it |
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