by Susan | Nov 8, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
November 8, 1897 Dorothy Day “We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.” November 9, 1914 Thomas Berry “The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this...
by Susan | Nov 1, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
November 4, 1879 Will Rogers “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” November 5, 1855 Eugene V. Debs “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I...
by Susan | Oct 25, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
October 26, 1944 Emanuel Cleaver “God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideals and religions, he BLESSED America with them… and we in our diversity and differences are all in this together.” October 26, 1466 Erasmus of...
by Susan | Oct 18, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
October 19, 1895 Lewis Mumford “War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.” October 22, 1887 John Reed “War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the...
by Susan | Oct 11, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
October 11, 1926 Thich Nhat Hanh “To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.” October 14, 1906 Johanna...
by Susan | Oct 6, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
October 6, 1961 President John Kennedy, speaking on civil defense, advises American families to build or buy a bomb shelter to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet...
