Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal… — 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… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. — 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
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place,… — 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
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
