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Service is the rent we pay for living.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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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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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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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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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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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
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I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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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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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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