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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
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It is utterly exhausting being Black in America — physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.
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I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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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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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Do not assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today.
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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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No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
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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.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
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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.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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June 6, 1939
(age 84)
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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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