It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
Marian Wright EdelmanWhen I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other peopleโs children, Iโm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.
Marian Wright Edelman