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Hope is the best contraceptive.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
Writer
Bennettsville
South Carolina
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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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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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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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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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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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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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I try to be a person of faith.
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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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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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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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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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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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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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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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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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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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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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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 hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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