Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
people constitution-of-the-united-states made
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
inspirational taxation libertarian
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
voice haiti found
A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.
past understanding gone
Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.
america complacency united-states
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...
heart people forgiving
Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.
character writing doe
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love . . . but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them.
running light white-privilege
We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.
sometimes
But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.
mother art kitchen
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
children past light
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
running home years
A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.
son lucky excited
I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky 13", it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz.
way sound smooth
That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.