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Marian Wright Edelman
June 6, 1939 -
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

   

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

   

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.

   

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

   

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

    Topics: Education

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