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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

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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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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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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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.
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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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