“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 135.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Once in a Lifetime, Tidal Wave of Justice, Hope and History, Seamus Heaney
“Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme.” - Seamus Heaney, poet, playwright, and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 36.
Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 36.
Monday, November 2, 2020
Long Fight, Survivors, Constituency, Power Base, Tarana Burke
“This is a long fight. ...It has given us an opportunity to show that survivors are more than just a group of people to pity, but that we are a constituency and a power base.” - Tarana Burtke, who coined the hashtag MeToo, responding to Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation after Christine Blasey Ford, Ph.D., testified that he attempted to rape her in high school
Found in Ms. Magazine, Winter 2019, page 6.
Found in Ms. Magazine, Winter 2019, page 6.
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Freedom of Speech, Dumb and Silent, George Washington
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington
Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 66.
Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 66.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Much is Given, Much is Expected, Mary Maxwell Gates
“From those whom much is given, much is expected.” - Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill Gates' mother, on board of regents for University of Washington, first female president of King's County United Way, first woman to chair national United Way executive committee
Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 41.
Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 41.
Friday, October 30, 2020
Four Essential Human Freedoms, Speech and Expression, Worship God, Want, Fear, Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 72.
Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 72.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Educate Men to Goodness, One Another, Love of the Truth, Daniel Berrigan
"But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of the truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?" — Daniel Berrigan, quoted on the cover of TIME (Jan. 25, 1971)
In "The Nation: The Berrigans: Conspiracy and Conscience". Time. 97 (4): 18. January 25, 1971.
In "The Nation: The Berrigans: Conspiracy and Conscience". Time. 97 (4): 18. January 25, 1971.
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