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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

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
Eclipsed
Killing
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