Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelmanis an American activist for the rights of children. She has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth6 June 1939
CountryUnited States of America
Marian Wright Edelman quotes about
caring differences making-a-difference
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
giving-up giving said
Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
giving-up children sacrifice
The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
caring role-models african-american
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
children kids care
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
depression thankful gratitude
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
sports democracy spectators
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
children responsibility fighting
When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.
trying
I try to be a person of faith.
education america survival
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
police rice
Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.
kids home juvenile-justice
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 the most to institutionalize him.
children doe tall
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
justice independence vision
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 be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.