Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty | Marian Wright Edelman.

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🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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What does it take to build a national movement? In a captivating conversation with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Marian Wright Edelman reflects on her path to founding the Children's Defense Fund in 1973 -- from the early influence of growing up in the segregated American South to her activism with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- and shares how growing older has only made her more radical.

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0:00.0	This interview features child advocate Marion Wright Edelman and TED Women curator Pat Mitchell, recorded live at TED Women 2018.
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0:47.7	I know you don't like that legend business.
0:50.2	No, I don't.
0:53.2	Why not, Marion?
0:55.0	Because you are somewhat of a legend.
0:56.0	You've been doing this for a long time, and you're still there as founder and president.
1:03.0	Well, because my daddy raised us and my mother raised us to serve, and we're a servant leaders.
1:10.0	And it is not about kind of external things or labels.
1:13.6	And I feel like the luckiest person in the world
1:16.6	have been born at the intersection of great needs
1:18.6	and great injustices and great opportunities to change them.
1:22.6	So I just feel very grateful that I could serve and make a difference.
1:26.6	What a beautiful way of saying it. So I just feel very grateful that I could serve and make a difference.
1:29.6	What a beautiful way of saying it.
1:34.9	You grew up in the American South,
1:42.2	and like all children, a lot of who you became was molded by your parents.
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