Nov
03
2009
“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.” — Anna Garlin Spencer …
Nov
02
2009
“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.” — William James …
Oct
30
2009
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo …
Oct
29
2009
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.” — Hubert H Humphrey …
Oct
28
2009
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” — Nelson Mandela …
Oct
27
2009
“The whole object of education is to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.” — Sherwood Anderson …
Oct
23
2009
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” — Thomas Paine …
Oct
22
2009
“Authenticity comes when your thoughts, your words, and your deeds have some relations to each other. It comes when there’s a real organic relationship between the way you think, the way you talk, and the way you act. You have to fight for authenticity all the time in this world, and if you don’t fight for it you will get derailed.” – Abe Osheroff in an interview with Robert Jensen …
Oct
21
2009
“INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.” — Ambrose Bierce …
Oct
20
2009
“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” — Tad Williams …