233 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.