It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people … - Marian Wright Edelman

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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Marian Wright Edelman

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

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