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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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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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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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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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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
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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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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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