233 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.

You can achieve much in life if you don’t mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn’t say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn’t have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America – physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren’t worth anything. But our parents said it wasn’t so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn’t so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

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.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

I need to work outside government, on my own.