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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
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Rent
Service
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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
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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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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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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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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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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
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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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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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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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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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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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