Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.