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Marian Wright Edelman Inspirational Quotes (92)

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In politics, there are no friends.
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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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.
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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.
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It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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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.
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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.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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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.
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I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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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.
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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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