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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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