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Marion Wright Edelman: “What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children not to be violent while marketing and glorifying violence. I believe adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “[W]e are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “You really can change the world if you care enough.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “Service is what life is all about.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “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.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?
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Marian Wright Edelman: “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, 'Let all children come unto me.'
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Marian Wright Edelman: “My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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Marian Wright Edelman: “We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “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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Marian Wright Edelman: “If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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Marian Wright Edelman: “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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Marian Wright Edelman: “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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