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Going Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
- We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic…
- The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
- Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you…
- When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing…
- Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities…
- Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning…
- The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to…
- I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
- It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
- 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…
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