The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright EdelmanI hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
Marian Wright EdelmanMuch of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.
Marian Wright Edelman