September 18, 1954
Steven Pinker
“All of the violence that doesn’t occur doesn’t get reported on the news.”
September 20, 1968
Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones
“The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence — and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.”
September 22, 1928
James Lawson
“We have a problem as a culture: we believe that violence is effective. That violence works. We encourage the killing even when we don’t teach it. Our denial is ruthless.”
