The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
Marian Wright EdelmanSo much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
Marian Wright EdelmanI think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Marian Wright EdelmanAmidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
Marian Wright Edelman