If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.Marian Wright Edelman
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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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
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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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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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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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