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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Vote
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Children
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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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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.
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People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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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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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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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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No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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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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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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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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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.
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