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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
South Carolina
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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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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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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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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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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
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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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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
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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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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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You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
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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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