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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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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
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You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
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Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.
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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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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
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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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I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
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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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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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