by Susan | Sep 27, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
September 29, 1547 Miguel de Cervantes “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” September 30, 1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain...
by Susan | Sep 20, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
September 20, 1878 Upton Sinclair “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” September 21, 1866 HG Wells “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in...
by Susan | Sep 13, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
September 15, 1890 Agatha Christie “Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.” September 17, 1935 Ken Kesey “I’d rather be a lightning rod than a...
by Susan | Sep 6, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
September 6, 1860 Jane Addams “Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.” September 8, 1900 Claude Pepper “If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better...
by Susan | Aug 30, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
August 30, 1944 Molly Ivins “So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
August 25, 1918 Leonard Bernstein “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” August 27, 1931 Sri Chinmoy “If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of...
