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Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
American Activist
Born: Jun 6, 1939
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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. Marian Wright Edelman
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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. Marian Wright Edelman
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. Marian Wright Edelman
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Marian Wright Edelman
Dreams Rain Person Your Your Dreams Right
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman
Education You World Better Community Others Leaving Than Improving Your Found Lives
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting. Marian Wright Edelman
Life Life Is A Too Easy Lot Interesting Less Whole Things
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. Marian Wright Edelman
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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. Marian Wright Edelman
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You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman
You Change World Care Change The World Enough Really
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. Marian Wright Edelman
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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. Marian Wright Edelman
Best Parents Become Know Educators Forget Children Experts Themselves Really Convinced
In politics, there are no friends. Marian Wright Edelman
Politics No Friends Friends
I try to act out of faith. Marian Wright Edelman
Faith Try Out Act
We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites. Marian Wright Edelman
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain. Marian Wright Edelman
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. Marian Wright Edelman
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It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere. Marian Wright Edelman
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Marian Wright Edelman
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Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. Marian Wright Edelman
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. Marian Wright Edelman
You Give Never No-One Feel Make Without Said Inferior Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt Your Consent
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. Marian Wright Edelman
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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. Marian Wright Edelman
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home. Marian Wright Edelman
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman
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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. Marian Wright Edelman
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