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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
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Children
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
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Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
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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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Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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