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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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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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.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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