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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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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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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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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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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
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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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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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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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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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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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