Marian Wright Edelman - Children Quotes

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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Marian Wright Edelman

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is the responsibility of every adult — especially parents, educators, and religious leaders — to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life, and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Marian Wright Edelman

Children—all children—are the world. Children are hope and life. Children are our immortality. Children are the seeds and the molders of history and the transmitters of our values— good and bad.

Marian Wright Edelman

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

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

Marian Wright Edelman