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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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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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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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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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God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
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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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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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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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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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As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.
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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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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
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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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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
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