by Susan | Mar 12, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
March 15, 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg “If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.” March 16 1839 Sully Prudhomme “The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up.” March 17,...
by Susan | Mar 5, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
March 5, 1870 Rosa Luxemburg “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” March 8, 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to...
by Susan | Feb 26, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
February 27, 1886 Hugo Black “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” March 1, 1927 Harry Belafonte “You can cage the singer but not the song.” March 1, 1939 Tzvetan Todorov...
by Susan | Feb 19, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
February 21, 1936 Barbara Jordan “What a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” February 21, 1940 John Robert Lewis “We may not have...
by Susan | Feb 12, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
February 14, 1817 Frederick Douglass “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” February 15, 1820 Susan B Anthony “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants...
by Susan | Feb 5, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
February 6, 1961 Asha Hagi Elmi “It has always been the case in all armed conflicts that women and children are the first and last victims of war, though war is neither their decision nor their desire.” February 10, 1898 Bertolt Brecht “Art is not a...
