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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
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
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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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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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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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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
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I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
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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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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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I try to be a person of faith.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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