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
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.
famous-inspirational life-is
Service is what life is all about.
family education children
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
people leader obsessed
People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
graduation kindness children
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
people drug slavery
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
change inspiring peace
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
children community
I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.
growing-up kids parent
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.
real hero school
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].