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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Do not assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today.

Marian Wright Edelman

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.

Marian Wright Edelman

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Marian Wright Edelman

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

Marian Wright Edelman

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Marian Wright Edelman

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

Marian Wright Edelman

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Marian Wright Edelman

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

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Born: June 6, 1939 (age 85)

Bio: Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist for the rights of children. She has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.

Known for:

The Measure of Our Success (1992)
The Sea is So Wide And My Boat Is So Small (2008)
I'm Your Child God (2002)
Families in peril (1987)
Guide My Feet (1995)

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