Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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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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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.
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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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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
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If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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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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Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
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I try to act out of faith.
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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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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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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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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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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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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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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
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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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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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You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.