Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation. - Marian Wright Edelman

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

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. - 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

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 often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done. - Marian Wright Edelman

Service is what life is all about. - Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. - Marian Wright Edelman

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