Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
Marian Wright Edelman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Years
Consumers
Gun
Unregulated
Product
Teddy
Bears
Regulate
Products
Consumer
Year
Kills
America
Toys
Children
Guns
More quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
Marian Wright Edelman
Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, Why doesn't somebody do something? They would say, Why don't we do something?.
Marian Wright Edelman
I try to be a person of faith.
Marian Wright Edelman
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Marian Wright Edelman
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman
Hope is the best contraceptive.
Marian Wright Edelman
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
Marian Wright Edelman
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
Marian Wright Edelman
You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
Marian Wright Edelman
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Marian Wright Edelman
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
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Marian Wright Edelman
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
Marian Wright Edelman
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
Marian Wright Edelman
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
Marian Wright Edelman
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
Marian Wright Edelman
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
Marian Wright Edelman
