"I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing……" — Marian Wright Edelman
"I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain."
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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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I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
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