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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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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
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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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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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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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