by Susan | Nov 23, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
24 November, 1961 Arundhati Roy “It’s odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don’t hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to...
by Susan | Nov 16, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
November 16, 1930 Chinua Achebe “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify...
by Susan | Nov 9, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
November 9, 1934 Carl Sagan “Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. . . For small creatures such as we...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
November 5, 1857 Ida Tarbell “There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.” November 8, 397...
by Susan | Oct 26, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
October 27, 1466 Erasmus of Rotterdam “War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.” October 27, 1923 Ruby Dee “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within — strength, courage, dignity.” October 31, 1860...
by Susan | Oct 19, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
October 19, 1921 Paulo Friere “Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.” October 24, 1939 Paula Gunn Allen “I have noticed that as...
