19 Notable Quotes By Marian Wright Edelman That Will Inspire You To Serve The Poor

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

You Life Time

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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

You Never Money Power Soul

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You really can change the world if you care enough.

You Change

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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

You Need

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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Life Will Children

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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

You

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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Think Time Trying

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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Life Love Alone Children

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You can't be what you can't see.

You

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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You Change Time Like

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Service is the rent we pay for living.

Living

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Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for

You

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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

Children

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You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

You

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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Children

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It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Time

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Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Life

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