by Susan | Jul 5, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
July 8, 1952 Marianne Williamson “May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.” July 9, 1905 Myles Horton...
by Susan | Jun 28, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
June 29, 1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupery “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” July 2, 1908 Thurgood Marshall...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
June 25, 1903 George Orwell “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” June 26, 1892 Pearl Buck “To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.” June 27,...
by Susan | Jun 14, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
June 16, 1931 John Shelby Spong “All human beings bear God’s image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one’s being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
June 8, 1928 Gustavo Gutiérrez “So you say you love the poor? Name them.” June 11, 1880 Jeanette Rankin “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” June 13, 1937 Eleanor Holmes Norton “The only way to make sure people you...
by Susan | May 31, 2015 | 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...
