Children Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

Let all children come unto me.

— Marian Wright Edelman

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

— Marian Wright Edelman

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

— Marian Wright Edelman

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

— Marian Wright Edelman

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

— Marian Wright Edelman

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help...

— Marian Wright Edelman

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone.…

— Marian Wright Edelman

As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God…

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house…

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that…

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with…

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

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

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

— Marian Wright Edelman

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

— Marian Wright Edelman

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

— Marian Wright Edelman

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

— Marian Wright Edelman

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

— Marian Wright Edelman

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

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

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

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

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