Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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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 and the very dream that is America.
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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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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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The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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I try to act out of faith.
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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.
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Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
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We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
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Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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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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We 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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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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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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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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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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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
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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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We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.