by Susan | Aug 7, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
August 7, 1938 Helen Caldicott “My prescription for action to save the planet is: Love, learn, live, and legislate.” August 12, 1930 George Soros “Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong,...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
August 3, 1940 Martin Sheen “I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.” August 5, 1850 Guy de Maupassant “Every government has as much of...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 26, 1913 Aimé Césaire “In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.” June 27, 1880 Helen Keller “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do...
by Susan | Jul 17, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
July 18, 1918 Nelson Mandela “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” July 20, 1921 Frantz Fanon “We revolt...
by Susan | Jul 10, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
July 13, 1932 Hubert Reeves “Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature that he has been destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” July 14, 1912 Woody Guthrie “This land...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
July 3, 1888 Ramon Gomez de la Serna “History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn’t there.” July 4, 1946 Ron Kovic “We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an...
