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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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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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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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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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