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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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In politics, there are no friends.
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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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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 try to be a person of faith.
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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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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
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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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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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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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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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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Don't assume a door is closed push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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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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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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So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.
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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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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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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.
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