by Susan | Aug 27, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
August 27, 1952 Miguel Angel Ruiz “Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” August...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
August 20, 1886 Paul Tillich “There is no love which does not become help.” August 22, 1935 Annie Proulx “What we fear we often rage against.” August 24, 1922 Howard Zinn “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing...
by Susan | Aug 13, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
August 13, 1851 Felix Adler “Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool...
by Susan | Aug 6, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
August 6, 1883 Scott Nearing “War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.” August 7, 1942 Garrison Keillor “Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed,...
by Susan | Jul 30, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
July 30, 1857 Thorstein Veblen “Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.” July 30, 1973 Clementa C. Pinkney “Loving God is never separate...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
July 23, 1913 Michael Foot “We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled...