Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Black History

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.79, Beacon Press

• 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

  Cheating, Children, Lying

• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Graduation, Kindness, Children

• Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Family, Education, Children

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

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Ifs

  "Reading Between the Lines of Arne Duncan’s ‘Major’ Speech" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

• 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

  Education, Children, Rights

• 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

  Children, People, Social Justice

  "Why do Politicians Feel Free to Hack Away at Special Education?" by Laurie Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2017.

• 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

  Teacher, Children, Believe

• 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

  Jesus, Children, Godly

• Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Gun, Years

• A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Doe, Tall

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

• Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Luxury, Issues

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

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Adults, Vote

• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Life Lesson

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

• There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, America, Long

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

• 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

  Children, Struggle, Light

• 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

  Children, Responsibility, Fighting

  "Advocate Queen" by Donna Henes, www.beliefnet.com. September 2017.

• The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Kids, Care

• 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

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Nice, Reality

• 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

  Money, Children, Character

• Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, People, Matter

• Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Children, Vote

• As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Believe, People

• It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Community, Needs

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