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Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

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

Marian Wright Edelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1939

Topics

Feel You Said Never Without Consent

I don't really listen to my old music.

Music Listen Old Old Music Really

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

John Gallagher, Jr.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

Wind Face Uncertainty Tax Washington

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

Start Negative Never Forget You Stay

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

People Moments Different Friendships

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

Dead Left Been Would Czechoslovakia

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

Day Fun City Growing Up Growing Kid

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Miguel de Cervantes

Within Greatest Must Whom Combat

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

Mother Shadows She Ghosts Own Her

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

Life Relationship Health People Want

I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.'

Birthday Time Parents People Black

When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.

Courtney A. Kemp

Experience Humility Shine Opinion

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