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“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”

Marian Wright Edelman · Education

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Marian Wright Edelman

I try to act out of faith.

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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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Marian Wright Edelman

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 they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

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Marian Wright Edelman

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

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