It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. — 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've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear… — 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
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. — 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
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind. — 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
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money… — 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
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
God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. — 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
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. — 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 Image
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 Image
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for” — 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 pay a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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