A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: action change effort greatness waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman (née Wright; born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.
More quotations from Marian Wright Edelman The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal-budget deficit-reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: politics poverty budget Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal-budget deficit-reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: politics poverty budget Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “waiting” I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better. —Paul Wellstone More about this quote Tags: justice action USA waiting better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: action leadership waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand. —Henri J. M. Nouwen More about this quote Tags: patience present trust taste discipline control waiting live conflict tomorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Instead of bucking your head against a stone wall … sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the wall to crumble. If you're willing to wait an eternity, it may happen in the twinkling of an eye. For walls often give way quicker than the proud spirit which rules us. Don't sit and pray that it will happen! Just sit and watch it happen. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: patience pride eternity waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: life patience waiting accommodation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better. —Paul Wellstone More about this quote Tags: justice action USA waiting better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: action leadership waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand. —Henri J. M. Nouwen More about this quote Tags: patience present trust taste discipline control waiting live conflict tomorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Instead of bucking your head against a stone wall … sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the wall to crumble. If you're willing to wait an eternity, it may happen in the twinkling of an eye. For walls often give way quicker than the proud spirit which rules us. Don't sit and pray that it will happen! Just sit and watch it happen. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: patience pride eternity waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: life patience waiting accommodation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email