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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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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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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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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'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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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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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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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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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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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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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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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
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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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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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