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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
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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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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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
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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.
Marian Wright Edelman
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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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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People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
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If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
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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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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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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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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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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.
Marian Wright Edelman
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
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