Shirley Franklin Past Quotations

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

I've been talking to evacuees over the course of the past week, and what I've said to them, each and every time, is, 'If they will meet us 10 percent of the way, then we'll bring 90 percent to the table,' ... We'll bring jobs, we'll bring opportunities for housing, we'll bring opportunities for education and all of the support that they need to establish themselves.