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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.
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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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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's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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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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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
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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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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 try to be a person of faith.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
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I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
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