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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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Lawyer
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
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Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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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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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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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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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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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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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
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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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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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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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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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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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