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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
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Bennettsville
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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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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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