Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Murray Kempton

Born: December 16, 1917
Died: May 5, 1997 (aged 79)
Bio: James Murray Kempton was an American journalist and social and political commentator. He won a National Book Award in 1974 for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.
Known for:
- Rebellions, perversities, and main events (1994)
- The Briar Patch (1973)
- Part of Our Time (1955)
- America Comes of Middle Age (1963)