by Susan | Apr 5, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
April 5, 1856 Booker T. Washington “There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” April 8, 1938 Kofi Annan “To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 5, 1930 In what is known as the Salt March, Mohandas Gandhi and his followers reached the end of their 240 mile march to the Indian Ocean coast at Dandi. He had left his ashram with 78 satyagrahis; the procession grew over the 23 days of traveling on foot until...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2015 | National Poetry Month
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all...
by Susan | Apr 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 4, 1967 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” in front of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City. In it, he says that there is a common link forming between the civil rights and peace movements....
by Susan | Apr 4, 2015 | National Poetry Month
In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls, I walk from one epoch to another without a memory to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing the history of the holy … ascending to heaven and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love and...
