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
gun violent plague
We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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.
justice leader movement
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
caring role-models african-american
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
children educational rights
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
success determination giving-up
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
change kings people
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
children drinking white
I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
people safety voting
We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.
children promise mankind
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
peace thinking effort
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
parent choices kind
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
trying
I try to be a person of faith.
helping-others pay volunteerism
Service is the rent we pay for living.