Marian Wright Edelman

“The road ahead will not be easy. But we were never promised anything easy. Freedom is never easy.”

“It is wrong, deadly wrong, to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote.”

 “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.”

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his life, but that it …

    César Chávez “The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.”

“Where law ends, tyranny begins.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of …

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations… can never effect a reform.”

“I am, and always will be, a catalyst for change.”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”