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Marian Wright Edelman quotes about caring

American Activist June 6, 1939

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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites. 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. Marian Wright Edelman
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "You really can change the world if you care enough."
You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman quote: "Understand and be confident that each of us can make a..."
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways. Marian Wright Edelman
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible. Marian Wright Edelman

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