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When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes]. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence ... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself ... worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for -- Marian Wright Edelman
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My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?". -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It is the responsibility of every adult ... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Every child's life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't be afraid of hard work. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Service is the rent we pay for living. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help ... -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It's time for greatness
not for greed. It's a time for idealism
not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders! -- Marian Wright Edelman
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I try to act out of faith. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Service is what life is all about. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You really can change the world if you care enough. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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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. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Let all children come unto me. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors.
Count on earning them by hard work
and perseverance. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Hope is the best contraceptive. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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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. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children
as if justice were divisible. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ... -- Marian Wright Edelman
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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. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction -- Marian Wright Edelman
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I try to be a person of faith. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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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. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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In politics, there are no friends. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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I need to work outside government, on my own. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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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
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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You just do it one step at a time. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences. -- Marian Wright Edelman