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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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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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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.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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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.
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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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.
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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.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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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.
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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