American - Activist | June 6, 1939 -
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.
Marian Wright Edelman
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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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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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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
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My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
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