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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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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Children
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Shaped
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