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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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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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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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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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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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Don't assume a door is closed push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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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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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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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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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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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's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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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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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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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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