A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Marian Wright Edelman
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- Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
- If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
- No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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