Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Marian Wright Edelman
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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
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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 (2013). The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children … ▶
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
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 foo … ▶
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (1987). Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change, p.101, Harvard University Press

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