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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still dont have a dime but I have a great vocabulary. Jules Feiffer		Tuesday May 05, 2026
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About Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.

Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.

Popular Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

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.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

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