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Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
Activist
Lawyer
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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
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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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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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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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Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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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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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.
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Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, Why doesn't somebody do something? They would say, Why don't we do something?.
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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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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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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.
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