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Index
Cover
Also By Marian Wright Edelman
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface
1. Parents As Mentors
2. Community Elders As Co-Parents and Mentors
3. Teachers and Their Messages
4. Spelman College—A Safe Haven
5. Europe
6. Martin Luther King, Jr., and A Spring of Change
7. The Yale Years
8. The Mississippi Years
9. Mississippi Mentors
10. Martin Luther King, Jr., and R.F.K.
11. Movement Time
12. Great Black Women Mentors and Movement Builders
13. Our Children As Mentors
14. America As Mentor For Its Children and the World
Afterword: A Parent’s Pledge and Twenty-Five More Lessons for Life
Lesson 1: Always remember that you are God’s child. No man or woman can look down on you and you cannot look down on any man or woman or child.
Lesson 2: Don’t wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
Lesson 3: Call things by their right names.
Lesson 4: Don’t listen to naysayers offering no solutions or take no or but for an answer.
Lesson 5: Don’t be afraid to stick your neck out, to make mistakes, or to speak up.
Lesson 6: Keep your word and your commitments.
Lesson 7: Be strategic, focus, and don’t scatter your energies on many things that don’t add up to a better whole.
Lesson 8: Watch out for success. It can be more dangerous than failure.
Lesson 9: You can’t do everything by yourself but you can do a lot.
Lesson 10: Asking the right questions and measuring the right things may be more important than finding the right answers.
Lesson 11: Travel lightly through life and resist the tyranny of burdensome or unneeded things.
Lesson 12: Be a pilgrim and not a tourist in life and don’t confuse heroism with fame or celebrity.
Lesson 13: God has a job for all of us to do. Open up the envelope of your soul and try to discern the Creator’s orders inside.
Lesson 14: Follow the Golden Rule rather than the world’s silver, iron, bronze, and copper rules.
Lesson 15: Bear all or most of the criticism and share all of the credit.
Lesson 16: Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
Lesson 17: Avoid high-maintenance, low-impact people and life in the fast lane.
Lesson 18: God did not create two classes of children or human beings—only one.
Lesson 19: Don’t ever give up on life. It is God’s gift. When trouble comes, hang in.
Lesson 20: Strive hard to be a good parent.
Lesson 21: Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
Lesson 22: Don’t let anything or anybody get between you and your education.
Lesson 23: Never judge the contents of a box by its wrappings.
Lesson 24: Take responsibility for your behavior. Don’t make excuses, blame, or point fingers at others or hide behind “everybody’s doing it.”
Lesson 25: Possessions and power don’t make the man or woman: principles, character, and love do.
A Glossary of Mentors and Significant Others
Works Cited
Copyright
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