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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
Activist
Lawyer
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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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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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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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 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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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
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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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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 try to be a person of faith.
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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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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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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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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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In politics, there are no friends.
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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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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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