List of Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

We're A Violent Nation, And We Need To Confront It. This Gun Plague Has To Stop.

I Grew Up In A Very Religious Family And It Is The Motivating Force To Every Thing I Do. I Am Fortunate To Have Had Adults All Around Me Who Really Lived Their Faith, In Helping Other People And Doing The Best You Can Do.

I Try To Act Out Of Faith.

I'm Tough In The Sense That I Believe As Strongly In What I'm Doing As Anybody Else Believes In What They Are Doing.

I Get Very Upset With All Of The Crowd Seekers Today, And People Out There Trying To Get On Tv. It Ain't About You. It's About Trying To Make The World More Just For Everybody.

I Need To Work Outside Government, On My Own.

If It's Wrong For 13-year-old Inner-city Girls To Have Babies Without The Benefit Of Marriage, It's Wrong For Rich Celebrities, And We Ought To Stop Putting Them On The Cover Of People Magazine.

Amidst Protestations Of 'who Can Be Against The Children?' Too Few People Are For Children When It Really Matters.

So Often We Think We Have Got To Make A Difference And Be A Big Dog. Let Us Just Try To Be Little Fleas Biting. Enough Fleas Biting Strategically Can Make A Big Dog Very Uncomfortable.

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.

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.

Our Government Has To Be Held Accountable For Enforcing The Law. Tamir Rice, The Fact That They Could Exonerate That Police Person [who Killed Him], And Tamir's Family Was Charged For The Ambulance To Take Him [to The Hospital]. It's Inhumane.