"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.“
-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."
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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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"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."
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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
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"In politics, there are no friends."
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