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Let all children come unto me...

Let all children come unto me.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Every day I wear my Harriet T...

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 208 quotes

You can't tell parents to tea...

You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Much of what I do now stems f...

Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

The crisis of children having...

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Service is the rent we pay fo...

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Luckily, I had incredible par...

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

The outside world told black ...

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.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Children must have at least o...

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Character, self-discipline, d...

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

What's wrong with our childre...

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

It is so important not to let...

It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

Don't assume a door is closed...

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

I'm doing what I think I was ...

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 208 quotes

When I fight about what is go...

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 208 quotes

Be a good ancestor. Stand for...

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

We are not going to deal with...

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

When Jesus Christ asked littl...

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.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

So often we are depressed by ...

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

The legacies that parents and...

The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

Marian Wright Edelman 208 quotes

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