Marian Wright Edelman Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”

“I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.”

“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.”

“I try to act out of faith.”

“In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.”

“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.”

“Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?”

“I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.”