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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

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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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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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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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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