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I try to be a person of faith...

I try to be a person of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

I get very upset with all of ...

I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

We're a violent nation, and w...

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

None of the candidates are ev...

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Don't count out Marian Wright...

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 208 quotes

Never work just for money. Mo...

Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

In 1990, when we started the ...

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

History does not pose problem...

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

I hope that people of all fai...

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

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

I grew up in a very religious...

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

We all need to get out of our...

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Justice is not cheap. Justice...

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

So often we think we have got...

So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

If it's wrong for 13-year-old...

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

That's not to say that some o...

That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

There were these great women ...

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Just because a child's parent...

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.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

I'd like to transform the sys...

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to s...

[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 208 quotes

Don't wait for, expect, or re...

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

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