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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
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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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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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