1. Marian Wright Edelman
When she graduated from Yale Law School in 1963, she began working for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal and Defense Fund in New York and then moved to Mississippi, where she became the first African American woman to practice law. ... Being raised to think that it is every person's responsibility to assist in perfecting the lives of others, Edelman developed a personal belief that has steered her through life: "If you don't like the way the world is, you have an obligation to change it," she says. ... "A nation that does not stand up for it...
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