by Susan | Oct 8, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
October 8, 1941 Jesse Jackson “Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.” October 9, 1934 Abdullah Ibrahim “People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not...
by Susan | Oct 1, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
October 1, 1847 Annie Besant “Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your...
by Susan | Sep 24, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
September 28, 551 BCE Confucius “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” September 29, 1511 Michael Servetus “To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine,...
by Susan | Sep 17, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
September 19, 1921 Paulo Freire “Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.” September 20, 1878 Upton Sinclair “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not...
by Susan | Sep 10, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
September 13, 1938 Judith Martin “The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.” September 15, 1945 Jessye Norman “If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what...
by Susan | Sep 3, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
September 4, 1846 David Burnham “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.” September 5, 1935 Werner Erhard “The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be...
