Marian Wright Edelman

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#communities #counter #decent #education #enough

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#america #capacity #care #children #every

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#give #right #said #up #whoever

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#day #every #every day #keep #obligated

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

#foster #him #home #keep #kid

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#fairness #future #hold #other #our

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#genuine #hear #learn #others #quiet

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#redeeming #socially #weapons

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#entitled #feel #struggle #sweat #you

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#much #stand #stand up #then #up