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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?.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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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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Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless 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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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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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
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Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
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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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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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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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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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