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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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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 hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, Why doesn't somebody do something? They would say, Why don't we do something?.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
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As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.
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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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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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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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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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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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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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