by Susan | Jan 29, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 30, 1909 Saul David Alinsky “As an organizer I start where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.” January 31, 1915 Thomas Merton “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us...
by Susan | Jan 22, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 26, 1944 Angela Davis “Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.'” January 27, 1945 Clarissa Pinkola Estés “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that...
by Susan | Jan 15, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 15, 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” January 18, 1925 Gilles Deleuze “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of...
by Susan | Jan 8, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 10, 1834 Lord Acton “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” January 11, 1885 Alice Paul “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” January 11, 1887...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 2, 1920 Isaac Asimov “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” January 3, 1892 JRR Tolkien “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” January 6, 1883 Kahlil Gibran “When we turn...
by Susan | Dec 25, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
December 25, 1931 Carlos Castenada “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” December 26, 1894 Jean Toomer “We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.” December 28, 1954 Denzel...
