Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

I'm the friend of the little people.

I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.

If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.

We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you'd have them do unto you.