If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.

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"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

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"You really can change the world if you care enough."

- Marian Wright Edelman

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"Listening to children is the most basic way to respect their rights."

- Marian Wright Edelman

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"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world for the better."

- Marian Wright Edelman

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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

- Marian Wright Edelman

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

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"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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