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
interesting life-is easy
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
teacher children struggle
The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
religious helping-others people
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
children long giving
I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
children suffering earth
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.
grateful favors kind
Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
pieces seeds
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.
doe problem solutions
History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
birth-control birth contraceptives
Hope is the best contraceptive.
sadness president-kennedys-assassination promise
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
hard-work hard
Don't be afraid of hard work.
children nice reality
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction
children people matter
Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
prison investment policy
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.