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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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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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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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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
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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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In politics, there are no friends.
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Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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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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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
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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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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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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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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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