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If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.


Marian Seldes

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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peopl...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gon...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are go...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. Wha...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who wer...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You just think of them playing baseball and basketball, anything fun, not waiting for someone to com...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w...
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