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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

~Marian Wright Edelman

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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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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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In politics, there are no friends.

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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

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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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I need to work outside government, on my own.

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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 6th, 1939

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