"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."

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

Marian Wright Edelman

#Inspirational Quotes #Peace Quotes #Women Quotes

“The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.”
“I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.”
“the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!”

Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.104, Anchor
“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”
“For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”
“Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.”
“The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.”
“My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.”

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