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Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Marian Wright Edelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1939

Topics

Family Faith Best I Am People Me

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

Jim Lovell

Failure Time Best Moon Thought Land

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

Jessica Raine

Power World Book Think Talking You

I love kale. Genuinely. I really am glad that I have a platform to express that. I think a good raw kale salad is always just a meaty mouth feel. I also really like kelp noodle pasta with a little kale on top.

Megan Amram

Love Good Think Feel Mouth Salad

Two subsequent incidents of import established CNN: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which CNN was the only network to cover as it happened, and the 1991 Gulf War, which CNN chronicled round the clock from a proximity as irresistible as it was alarming, bomb blasts and gunfire lighting up TV screens from coast to coast.

Steve Erickson

War Space Clock Two Up Challenger

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

Stefano Pessina

People Wrong Done Say Most Maybe

Doors have locks, citizens have guns, and countries have borders.

Tomi Lahren

Doors Borders Guns Locks Citizens

As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?

Tom Graves

Face Rich American Doors House Stop

I am not a person who just wants to be an actor. Do you know what I mean? I am an artist who wants to speak to people through his work: through his vessel.

Russell Hornsby

Work I Am People Speak You Artist

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

Jonathan Krohn

I Am Child Classmates Only Child Am

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

Donna Brazile

Politics Balance People Media Create

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

Brad D. Smith

Technology Generation Internet Learn

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Peter Shumlin

Health Care Cost Where Health Care