American - Activist | June 6, 1939 -
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Marian Wright Edelman
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
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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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It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere.
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.
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