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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman

Inspirational, Peace, Women

Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Change, Inspiring, Peace

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Marian Wright Edelman

Peace, Money, America

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

Marian Wright Edelman

Peace, Home, Community

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

Marian Wright Edelman

Peace, Thinking, Effort

"A Parent, Community, and National Audit: It’s Time for Adults to Shape up and Close the Hypocrisy Gap" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2011.