The Outside World Told Black Kids When I Was Growing Up That We Weren't Worth Anything. But Our Parents Said It Wasn't So, And Our Churches And Our Schoolteachers Said It Wasn't So. They Believed In Us, And We, Therefore, Believed In Ourselves.

-Marian Wright Edelman

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The Outside World Told Black Kids When

Marian Wright Edelman

The Outside World Told Black Kids When I Was Growing Up That We Weren't Worth Anything. But Our Parents Said It Wasn't So, And Our Churches And Our Schoolteachers Said It Wasn't So. They Believed In Us, And We, Therefore, Believed In Ourselves.

Topic

Inspirational

Growing Up

Kids

If Parents Snicker At Racial And Gender Jokes, Another Generation Will Pass On The Poison Adults Still Have Not Had The Courage To Snuff Out.

Family

Racism

Role Models