Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Marian Wright Edelman Quote
“The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.”
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