Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Ordinary people can bring about change.
Winfrey, Oprah. O, The Oprah Magazine. Hearst Communications, 2006.
building brain injury treatment facilities on military bases to care for wounded soldiers. Fisher raised the money and built several major medical facilities on military bases while Congress was in Gridlock over raising and reforming taxes desired by the Democrats and cutting of government spending desired by the Republicans with no compromise as a large proportion of the Republicans had signed a pledge never to vote for increased taxes regardless of the need and the Democrats would not make all the cuts that would affect the poor, ill, and middle class unless there was a balance with raising taxes.
She led a study in the late 1950s where they collected 300,000 St Louis resident’s baby teeth with the ages of the time of collection and the data of birth. She and her colleagues were able to show that after each of the post WWII Nuclear Tests, the level of Strontium 90 increased in the teeth of the children. The results were published in the prestigious scientific journal Science in 1961. The study was presented to Congress by her husband—also a physician and it was also considered by President John F. Kennedy. It was also shared with the Russians and shortly thereafter the first of the Test Ban treaties was signed. At the time politicians had more respect for science than became the norm in the beginning of the 21st century but she retained her faith in the political process integrating and being informed by science. See {640557}.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media,” she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
