All Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
- Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest… Age
- Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. Central
- The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to… American
- Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival,… America
- A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. Children
- Education is a precondition to survival in America today. America
- Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Better
- Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. Children
- I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to… Angry
- The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we… Better
- You really can change the world if you care enough. Black
- I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. Century
- I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me… Breaking
- It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. Challenge
- People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our… Act
- We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and… Amount
- I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling… Adult
- I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high… Alcohol
- Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand… Backwards
- Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems,… Been