So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
Marian Wright EdelmanThe 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 EdelmanI hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
Marian Wright EdelmanYou have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
Marian Wright Edelman