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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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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

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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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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

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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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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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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

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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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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 6th, 1939

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