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

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and…

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm…

— 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

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person…

— 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

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

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and…

— 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

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

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change?…

— 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

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so…

— 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 Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we…

— Marian Wright Edelman