Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

Marian Wright Edelman

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• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Know
  • Down

• We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Week

• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Like
  • Director
  • Frustrated

• Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • May

• We have a really cool relationship because I talk to my son like he's my little homie. I try to be the cool dad, like, 'What's up? How many girls you have?'

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Dad

• I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Real
  • House
  • Food

• I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

  

  Jeff Greene
  • Career

• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Great
  • Age
  • Service

• In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

  

  James Stephens
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Evil

• We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • Energy
  • Community
  • Airplane

• I was a single mom.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Single
  • Mom

• Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the camera. When I'm shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I'm going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Learning

• My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.

  

  Chesty Puller
  • Time
  • American
  • Success

• When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

  

  Diego Maradona
  • Time
  • God

• I can hypnotize rabbits.

  

  Elena Anaya

• No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Up

• We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Forget
  • Germany

• Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Opinion
  • Jews
  • Hitler

• Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Death
  • Mankind
  • Condition

• It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.

  

  William Goyen
  • Writing
  • House
  • Pieces

• Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Hitler
  • Confuse
  • Nazi Germany