"I hadn't planned on going to law school.……" — Marian Wright Edelman
"I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature."
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121 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman has 121 quotes on this site.
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights…
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not…
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Service is what life is all about.
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Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher,…
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something…
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time…
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn…
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I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and…
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do…
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or…
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left…
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More Century Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
— Karen Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
— Isaac Asimov
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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