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In politics, there are no friends.

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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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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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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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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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
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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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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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I try to be a person of faith.
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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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