Famous Quotes | Children cannot eat rhetoric and...

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
Attribution: Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939), African American lawyer. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989). A graduate of Yale University Law School, and the first African American woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi, Edelman founded the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973.

Categories: Child Advocate And Author, Children, Children’s Needs And Wants, Government, Lawyer, Poverty And The Poor

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