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Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) is an American lawyer, civil rights activist, and founder and longtime president of the Children's Defense Fund. She has led the organization since its 1973 founding to advocate for children's rights, reduce poverty, and influence public policy on education and health.
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Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
Positive Change Begins With Serving Others
Marian Wright Edelman frames positive change not as a slogan or a sudden breakthrough, but as something built from the ground up. By placing “service to a fellow human being” at the foundation, she suggests that real pro...
Created on: 12/23/2025
Seeing Possibility: How Representation Shapes Who Becomes
Marian Wright Edelman’s line captures a simple but powerful mechanism: if identities and paths are invisible, they feel unavailable. Children and adults alike assemble their sense of the possible from cues around them—fa...
Created on: 10/22/2025