The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to...

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Marian Wright Edelman Quote About Giving Up, Children, Sacrifice: The Civil Rights Movement Was...

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