233 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

Amidst protestations of ‘Who can be against the children?’ too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

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.

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.

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.

There are levels of outrage, and there’s a point at which you can’t be trespassed upon anymore.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it’s not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

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.

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.

So much of America’s tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people’s children – as if justice were divisible.