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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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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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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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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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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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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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In politics, there are no friends.
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Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
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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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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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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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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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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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No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
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