Susan Estrich on The Blame Game
But there, in the grim new year, I ran into Marian Wright Edelman, the legendary civil rights leader and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. She was fighting the Reagan budget, working the hallways the same way she did when there was a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate. What was she doing?
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She was fighting, she told me, who was still smarting from the losses. You never stop fighting. That is the only way to lose. You keep fighting for what you believe in. You go forward. Better than playing the blame game.
It's a lesson I hope I never forget.
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