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Marian Wright Edelman has 122 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health…
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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Service is what life is all about.
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Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend.…
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm…
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just…
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal…
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I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate…
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with…
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or…
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.
— Pema Chodron
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Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take…
— Edmund Bourne
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Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no…
— Brad Warner
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Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
— Joan Halifax
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We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and…
— Daniel Goleman
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Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no…
— Nhat Hanh
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At…
— Pema Chodron
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