Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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Service is what life is all about.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
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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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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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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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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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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
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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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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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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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