Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
-
Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
-
Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
-
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
-
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
-
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
-
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
-
I'm a little angry in life.
-
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
-
I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
-
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
-
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
-
The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
-
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
-
I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
-
I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
-
I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
-
The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.
-
While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.
-
For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.
-
Hope is the best contraceptive.
