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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 worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.
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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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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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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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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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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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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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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, Why doesn't somebody do something? They would say, Why don't we do something?.
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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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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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