Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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

  Family, Education, Children

• The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Kids

• Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Rights

• You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Parent, Choices, Kind

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.63, Beacon Press

• When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jesus, Children, Godly

• If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Family, Racism, Role Models

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press

• In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Nice, Reality

• 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

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Party, School

• The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Struggle

• 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

  Parent, Saws, Problem

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Hands, Community

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Party, School

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, School

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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