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Marian Wright Edelman Biography

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children. She has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF).

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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.

Children, Face, Left, Struggle, Teacher

It is the responsibility of every adult. . . 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.

Children, Education, Life, Life Lesson, Responsibility

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

Determined, Ancestor, Ancestors, Stay

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

Germany, Hitler, Law, Let, Principles, Right

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Bigs, Difference, Differences, Small, Trying

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

America, Money, Peace, Priorities, Values

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Trying, Originality, Born, Copy, Original

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Birth Defects, Children, Educational, Hunger, Linked, Malnutrition

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

Justice, African American, Cheap, Achieved, Quick

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

War, Fighting, Groups, Front, Federal

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Helping Others, Pay, Volunteerism, Service, Living

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

Kings, Leadership, Luther, Movement, People, Pick

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.

Children, Responsibility, Fighting, Community, Found

It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.

Current, Law, Men, Psyche, Viewed, White

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.

Cheating, Children, Lying, Believe, Marketing

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

Bear, Child, Children, Drinking, Fountain, White

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.

Children, Deprive, Education, Nutrition, Poor, Rights

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

Adults, Children, Stand, Vote

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

Children, Hope, Mankind, Presence, Promise

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Grace, Models, Ordinary, Real, Role Models

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