Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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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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What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.
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Don't be afraid of hard work.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
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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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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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I try to act out of faith.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
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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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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.
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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.