I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
Marian Wright EdelmanThere are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
Marian Wright EdelmanIn 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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
Marian Wright Edelman