“Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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“A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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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
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“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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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.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Category: time
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“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 be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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“In politics, there are no friends.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Category: politics
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