If parents snicker at racial ...

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
 Marian Wright Edelman

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When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.
I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
 Billy Mills
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
 Monica Crowley
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield

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You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
 Marian Wright Edelman
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
 Marian Wright Edelman
You really can change the world if you care enough.
 Marian Wright Edelman
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
 Marian Wright Edelman
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
 Marian Wright Edelman