Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.Marian Wright Edelman
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Marian Wright Edelman
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.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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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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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
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