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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.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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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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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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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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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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