by Susan | Jun 26, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 26, 1916 Virginia Satir “Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don’t know.” June 27, 1880 Helen Keller “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 19, 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” June 24, 1542 St. John of the Cross “If a man wishes to...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 13, 1917 Augusto Roa Bastos “The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.” June 14, 1928...
by Susan | Jun 5, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 6, 1860 Dean Inge “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” June 6, 1939 Marian Wright Edelman “You just need to be...
by Susan | May 29, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman “The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common...
by Susan | May 15, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
May 18, 1872 Bertrand Russell “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” May 19, 1925 Malcolm X “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” May 21, 1688 Alexander Pope “Teach me to feel...
