Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Change, Inspiring, Peace

• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Life Lesson

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

• When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Responsibility, Fighting

  "Advocate Queen" by Donna Henes, www.beliefnet.com. September 2017.

• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Struggle, Responsibility, Volunteer

  David Halberstam, Marian Wright Edelman, Sadako N. Ogata (1991). “Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?”

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