People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't… — 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
That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront,… — 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
When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we… — 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
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
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — 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
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
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help... — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We… — 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 grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate… — 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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