25 Quotes by John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live,

I'm just waiting to see if it will happen. I've been disillusioned so many times before. It's 2006, and there's nothing in the nation's capital to show what happened to African-Americans. Nothing.

Individuals have become much more inclined to do their own shopping, whether it is buying things online or philanthropy, ... We found ourselves being a middleman at a time no one wanted middlemen.

I don't look at city boundaries. We try to help people anywhere in St. Lucie County.

Her determination (was) to stand up, not merely for herself, not merely for all women, not merely for African-Americans but for all Americans.

The circumstances are remarkable when you stop to think about what you couldn't do in Raleigh and in Richmond. After 1831, they didn't want blacks to learn the ABCs. She put those boys in school,