Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman.
“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”
“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”
“I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things I didn't realize I was learning and that I never knew I'd be so grateful for. When you have love...”
“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,...”
“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”
“The vision of your tomorrow that you have today strengthens you for the morrow”
“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be po...”
“Youve changed me forever. And Ill never forget you.”
“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discover...”
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”
“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”