by Susan | Feb 19, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
February 21, 1936 Barbara Jordan “What a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” February 21, 1940 John Robert Lewis “We may not have...
by Susan | Feb 18, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
February 18, 1943 Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, the leaders of the German youth group Weisse Rose (White Rose), were arrested by the Gestapo for opposing the Nazi regime. The White Rose was composed of university students who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and...
by Susan | Feb 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
February 17, 1600 Giordano Bruno, an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer was burned at the stake for heresy in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori. He is known for his cosmological theories: he proposed that the stars were just...
by Susan | Feb 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
February, 16 1941 A pastoral letter was read in the majority of Norwegian pulpits telling the fascist regime to “end all which conflicts with God’s holy arrangements regarding truth, justice, freedom of conscience and...
