"The outside world told black kids when I……" — Marian Wright Edelman

"The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves."

Marian Wright Edelman

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