Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. —Marian Wright Edelman
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

Marian Wright Edelman Activist, president and founder of Children's Defense Fund

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Gerhild from Germany OCTOBER 8, 2021
Perfect said 😁

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