You have to have a fundamental change in the cultu...

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.

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Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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Marian Wright Edelman

You really can change the world if you care enough.

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Marian Wright Edelman

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

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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.

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Marian Wright Edelman

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.

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Marian Wright Edelman

You have to have a ...

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