Quote

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Marian Wright Edelman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Break
Billionaire
Poor
Millionaire
America
Coverage
Without
Breaks
Billionaires
Children
Hungry
Millionaires
Long
Taxes
Dime
Health
Dimes
Millions
Uneducated

More quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

Image
People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
So 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 Edelman
Image
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
Don't assume a door is closed push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
Marian Wright Edelman
Image
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
Marian Wright Edelman