Marian Wright Edelman Quotes - Page 4

• The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Rap, Levels

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Race, Class, America

  "Staying on the March - Right Now" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2015.

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• We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Home, Kids, Juvenile Justice

  "Society's Pushed-Out Children" by Margie Casady, Psychology Today, June 1975.

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• Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Bad Day, Thinking, Trying

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Past, Long

  "It’s Past Time to Protect Children Not Guns" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• [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].

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Hero, School

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

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Law, Democracy, Snuff

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• Por suerte, tuve unos padres increíbles que, cuando veían un problema, no decían: "¿Por qué no hace alguien algo?". Decían: "¿Por qué no hacemos algo nosotros?".

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Parent, Saws, Problem

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Adults, Vote

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• I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Work, Grateful, Thinking

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• People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, African American, Credit

  "Children Can’t Vote but You Can - and Must" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2010.

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• The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Justice, Community

  "Leisure as transformation: Volume 4". Book by Christopher R. Edginton, Peter Chen, p. 87, 2008.

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• We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Leader, Movement

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Responsibility, Fighting

  "Advocate Queen" by Donna Henes, www.beliefnet.com. September 2017.

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• Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Giving Up, Giving, Said

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• I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, People, Helping

  "'Who’s Looking for Me?': God’s and America’s Invisible Children" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2014.

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• God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Light, Justice, Darkness

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• In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Leader, Trying, Adults

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund -- the nation's largest lobbying group for young people -- talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Black, President

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• I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Children, Thinking

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund - the nation's largest lobbying group for young people - talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• Cuando el presidente Kennedy fue elegido, muchos estadounidenses de raza negra, como tantos otros estadounidenses, quedaron cautivados por su juventud, su energía y sus promesas, y confiaban especialmente en que podría hacer avanzar al país en una nueva dirección en materia de derechos civiles.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  País, Mudanza, Derechos

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Rocks, Black, Black Women

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• The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Independence, Vision

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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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Luxury, Enough, Bottom

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Service is what life is all about.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Famous Inspirational, Service Culture, Fortune Cookie

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