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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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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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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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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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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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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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So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.
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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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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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In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
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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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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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