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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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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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 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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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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So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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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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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
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Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.
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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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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
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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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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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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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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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