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Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

~Marian Wright Edelman

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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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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

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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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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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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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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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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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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 6th, 1939

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