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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
Marian Wright Edelman
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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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Mankind
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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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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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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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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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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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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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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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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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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