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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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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Children
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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