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

- Marian Wright Edelman

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

Education

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

Education

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

Education

"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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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"No one is beyond redemption."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

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"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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