I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for” — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share
