Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Civil Rights

• Nadie tiene derecho a arruinar tus sueños.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirar, Inspirar, Soñar

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.29, Beacon Press

• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Trabajo, Escuela, Media

• Cuando el presidente Kennedy fue elegido, muchos estadounidenses de raza negra, como tantos otros estadounidenses, quedaron cautivados por su juventud, su energía y sus promesas, y confiaban especialmente en que podría hacer avanzar al país en una nueva dirección en materia de derechos civiles.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Moving, Rights

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

• [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Hero, School

• 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

  Children, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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