Marian Wright Edelman
Sign in to saveAmerican activist for children's rights (born 1939)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Effective leadership
- Jobs and welfare
- The American family in crisis
- American children and families
- Adolescent pregnancy prevention
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-06-10
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 9
- Total plays
- 9
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,936x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Free radicals and antioxidants in normal physiological functions and human disease
· 2007 · cited 10,912x
- Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,768x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
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Quotes
- “I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.”
- “The Bible is replete with the images and power of small things which achieve great ends when they are grounded in faith: a mustard seed, a jawbone, a stick, a slingshot, a widow's mite. 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.”
- “A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
- “The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”
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Connections
civil rights movement
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Freedom Summer
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Academy of Achievement
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Washington, D.C.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Soviet Union
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Atlanta
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Hillary Clinton
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Muhammad Ali
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Helen Keller
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Emily Dickinson
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Maya Angelou
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Pearl S. Buck
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Bernie Sanders
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Michelle Obama
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Oprah Winfrey
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Categories
1939 births20th-century American lawyers20th-century American women lawyers20th-century American women writers21st-century African-American lawyers21st-century American lawyers21st-century American women lawyers21st-century American women writersActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican children's rights activistsAmerican women nonprofit executivesLiving peopleMacArthur FellowsMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of The LinksMembers of the National Academy of MedicineOrder of the Palmetto recipientsPeople appearing on C-SPANPeople associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational FundPeople from Bennettsville, South CarolinaPoor People's CampaignPresidential Medal of Freedom recipientsSpelman College alumniWriters from South Carolina