by Susan | Jul 16, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
July 16, 1946 Barbara Lee “Kids can’t see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can’t show an ability to solve problems without...
by Susan | Jul 9, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
July 10, 1939 Mavis Staples “If you don’t get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?” July 11, 1899 E.B. White “I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn’t have a...
by Susan | Jul 2, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
July 2, 1925 Patrice Lumumba “Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.” July 4, 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne “You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are...
by Susan | Jun 25, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
June 27, 1880 Helen Keller “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” June 30, 1903 Countee Cullen “The truth...
by Susan | Jun 18, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
June 19, 1623 Blaise Pascal “Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” June 19, 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power...
by Susan | Jun 11, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
June 11, 1910 Jacques Yves Cousteau “People protect what they love.” June 12, 1929 Anne Frank “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” June 13, 1937 Eleanor Holmes Norton “The only...
