The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't… — 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
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who… — 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
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do… — 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
God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help… — 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
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 was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material… — 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
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
