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Marian Wright Edelman
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“I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.”
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Margie Casady, "Society's Pushed-Out Children", Psychology Today (June 1975).
“The Bible is replete with the images and power of small things which achieve great ends when they are grounded in faith: a mustard seed, a jawbone, a stick, a slingshot, a widow's mite. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Families in Peril (1987) page 108
“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Dick Richards, The Art of Winning Commitment : 10 Ways Leaders Can Engage Minds, Hearts, And Spirits (2004), p. 11.
“The odds continue to be stacked against children of color who made up nearly three-quarters of all poor children in 2018. With nearly one in four poor, they are more than 2.5 times more likely to be poor than White children.”
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ask the Question: When Are We Going to End Child Poverty in America? in The Charleston Chronicle (23 September 2019)
“In Montgomery, Alabama, Jonah and I went to the Civil Rights Memorial, and then we walked around to Dexter Baptist Church and went up into Martin's pulpit. I'd forgotten what a little place it was. We looked out from the little pulpit in that little church and talked about how something so big started from a place so small. Just a lot of committed people of faith in church on one side of the street, and all the power of Alabama in the state capitol right across the street. As a young lawyer, I used to listen to Dr. King in chapel at Spelman College. One of the thngs I liked about him was that he didn't pretend to be a great powerful know-it-all. I remember him discussing openly his gloom, depression, his fears, admitting that he didn't know what the next step was. He would then say: "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mother Jones Magazine May-Jun 1991. Vol. 16, No. 3. p. 77. ISSN 0362-8841.