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
luxury enough bottom
Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
people demand noise
There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.
children
Let all children come unto me.
children adults vote
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
children community needs
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
men black serious
It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
birth-control birth contraceptives
Hope is the best contraceptive.
law germany principles
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
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.
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.
inspiring money work
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
people african-american credit
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 interests.
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.