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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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.Marian Wright Edelman
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
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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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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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.
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