American - Activist | June 6, 1939 -
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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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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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
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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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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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In politics, there are no friends.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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Service is what life is all about.
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I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
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