by Susan | Jun 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 14, 1966 The Vatican abolished their list of prohibited books (Index librorum prohibitorum) from 1557, which in 1948 still included authors like Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Milton, Locke, Swift, Kant, Spinoza, de Balzac, Bacon, Zola, Sartre,...
by Susan | Jun 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 5, 1972 Jane Briggs Hart, the wife of Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Michigan), informed the Internal Revenue Service that she wouldn’t pay some of her taxes; instead, she deposited her quarterly estimated tax of $6,200 in a special bank account. She wrote: “I...
by Susan | May 1, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
May 1, 1837 “Mother” Jones “My business is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” May 4, 1796 Horace Mann “Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor...
by Susan | Apr 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 23, 1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt made his “The Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne, in Paris: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
by Susan | Apr 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 13, 1873 The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans were murdered, took place. In the wake of the contested 1872 election for governor of Louisiana and local offices, a group of white Democrats, armed with rifles and a small cannon, overpowered...
