Creative Quotations from . . .
Marian Wright Edelman
(1939-____) born on
Jun 6
US social reformer, lawyer, author. She founded the "Children's Defense Fund;" wrote "The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours," 1992.
         
   
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F
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

R
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
A
Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
N
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
K
Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Psychology Today," 1975.
R: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
A: In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
N: In "Families in Peril," 1987.
K: In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
 

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