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Harvard College Class Day speaker Marian Wright Edelman yesterday asked the Class of 1993 to take responsibility for their own future and the fate of the nation's children...
...Edelman, the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, spoke to a crowd of approximately 3,000 in Tercentenary Theatre...
...poor are getting poorer," Edelman continued, "the rich are getting richer, pitting American against American, increasing our fears, our poverty rates, and our racial divisions...
...Marian Wright Edelman has clearly made an emotional investment in what she is trying to do, and that comes across when she speaks," Landers says. "She is a warm and caring person and she channels that warmth and caring into larger endeavors than most people...
...Edelman has demonstrated through a quarter century of consistent social activism that "children are our most precious resource," which is good reason to believe that today's address to the Class of 1993 will be received as warmly as a piece of loving advice from a doting mother