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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

~Marian Wright Edelman

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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

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I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 6th, 1939

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