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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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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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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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It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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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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I try to be a person of faith.
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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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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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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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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
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In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.
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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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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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