Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Marian Wright Edelman

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Place

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Man
  • Enjoy
  • Disdain

• I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Money
  • Learn
  • Cook

• Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Constitution

• The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sad

• I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Right

• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• If I have a day off I will play golf.

  

  Dean Norris
  • Golf

• A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Society

• How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Past

• Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Country
  • Children
  • America

• I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

  

  John Milius
  • Writing

• The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

  

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