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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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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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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
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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 for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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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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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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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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I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
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Don't assume a door is closed push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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