Marian Wright

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    It is [children] who are God’s presence, promise and hope for mankind.
    Marian Wright Edelman (late 20th–century)

    Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.
    —Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)