Marian Wright Edelman Giving Quotations

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

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.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.