John Franklin Quotations

I can't go against our attorney. That's why we pay attorneys.

God has used this situation to give my people on-hands experience at working and putting the rubber to the road in ministry and becoming missionaries. I think our church is going to be receiving a blessing from this years from now.

If the CEO isn't engaged, you don't have a campaign,

He doesn't want to worry about how five kids parcel out one company.

. . . Historical facts are all pervasive and cut through the most rigid barriers of race and caste.

I will certainly listen to any information they have and vote accordingly.

I was just driving past the art guild and I saw it and I stopped in one day. I just pulled some of my old stuff out of storage and put it in the show just for fun.

I think he's been in every courthouse basement in the South,

We'll be the only deployment site in Florida.

We are in the business of driving drugs out of Reading, not people.

We're coming up on in-gathering for Mary Hill Davis Offering for state missions. My church has just become a church made up completely of missionaries. This is mission right here, and this is so exciting,

We can't undo this part of our heritage. But what we can affect is where we are headed. I want to talk about multiculturalism, because I think that's where we are headed.

We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It is clear, however, that color and race are at once the most important and the most enigmatic.

We are going to do our best to reach out to every citizen of the United States, to engage them in every way possible, and to make certain that they appreciate fully the opportunity which we have to do something not only significant but even spectacular.

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape . . . . Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

This guy's family deserves a peaceful funeral. It's not right what they're doing. The only reason they're able to walk around like that is because the veterans fought for their freedom.

A lot of women are smart and capable. We have to give them opportunities so that they know they can succeed. It's about self-esteem. It's important for women to be confident.

At least the kids are trying, scratching away, although they don't quite have it. It's like watching a cartoon, but it's nostalgic. They're trying. ... all the clear-cutting of babies.

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,