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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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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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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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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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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
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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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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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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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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
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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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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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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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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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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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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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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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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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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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