Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Giving
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.
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I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
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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.
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The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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