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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
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Lawyer
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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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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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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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
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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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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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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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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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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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I try to be a person of faith.
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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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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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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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