Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• 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

• 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

• Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Children, Leader

• Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Hands, Community, Black

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

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, United States, Poverty

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.74, Beacon Press

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

  Marian Wright Edelman

  War, Fighting, Poverty

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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