Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights activist, lawyer and author, is the founder of the Children's Defense Fund which has sought to bring the plight of children to the attention of policy mkers and the public, and has been a vigorous advocate for the creation and funding of programs to improve children's lives for over twenty years.
All who love children are served generously and intelligently by
the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman. Her
arms are open to the children and adults of the world and we all
are stronger and more safe because of her. —Maya Angelou
"From the earliest years of the campaign for civil rights to the
most recent struggles on behalf of children of all races, this
memoir summons up the sense of deep and personal discipleship that
each and every one of us depends upon to keep alive a flame of
hope. Lanterns is a radiant and transcendent book, filled with
moral lessons from the youth of a courageous woman to the hearts of
those who follow in her footsteps: a gift of love from one heroic
generation to the next." —Jonathan Kozol
"I am pleased to have been selected by Marian Wright Edelman, who
has championed the rights for thousands of children in this
century, as one of her mentors." —Mrs. Rosa L. Parks
"This memoir, lucidly and poignantly told, offers a compelling
moral history of our country-an account of how brave and honorable
individuals helped us make changes both necessary and important to
accomplish." —Robert Coles
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