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
giving achievement mind
You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
children courageous injustice
Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
mean men racism
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.
gun police different
You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
children
Let all children come unto me.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
children community needs
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
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So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
inspiring money work
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.