Ezra Edelman famous quotes

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.
-- Ezra Edelman

#Struggle #Honest #Being Honest

O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response was, famously, "I'm not black - I'm O.J." O.J. had ambitions to be famous, rich and liked by everyone, and I think he understood that being political and militant as a black athlete was not a way to engender universal love.
-- Ezra Edelman

#Athlete #Ambition #Thinking

I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.
-- Ezra Edelman

#People #Guilt #One Day

O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
-- Ezra Edelman

#Sports #Athlete #Political

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.
-- Ezra Edelman

#Mean #Murder #Complicated

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.