Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

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.

Marian Wright Edelman

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• You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

  

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• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

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• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

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• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

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• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

  

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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.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Country
  • Children
  • Education