BIRTHDAYS & QUOTATIONS

June 26, 1892 Pearl S. Buck "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." June 26, 1916 Virginia Satir "We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We...

June 25, 1881 Crystal Eastman "Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right." June 25, 1903 George Orwell "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When...

June 23, 1910 Jean Anouilh "God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies." June 23, 1912 Alan Turing "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."

June 22, 1947 Octavia E. Butler "Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world." June 22, 1949...

June 21, 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr "Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope....

June 20, 1905 Lillian Hellman "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion." June 20, 1917 Orlando Aloysius Battista "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

June 19, 1948 Phylicia Rashad "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a...

June 18, 1838 Auberon Herbert "If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force." June 18, 1929 Jurgen Habermas "Each murder is one too...

June 17, 1703 John Wesley "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." June 17, 1958 Jello Biafra "For every prohibition you...

June 15, 1922 Mo Udall "Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them." June 15, 1969 Ice Cube "It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be...

June 14, 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe "Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good." June 14, 1928 Che Guevara "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

June 13, 1917 Augusto Roa Bastos "The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness." June 13, 1937 Eleanor Holmes...

June 11, 1572 Ben Jonson "There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear." June 11, 1910 Jacques Yves Cousteau "People protect what they love. "

June 9, 1843 Bertha Von Suttner "How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be...

June 7, 1857 Samuel McChord Crothers "Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." June 7, 1893 J.B. Morton "Justice...

June 4, 1937 Robert Fulghum "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber." June 4, 1948 Jim Wallis "We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many...

June 3, 1804 Richard Cobden "For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap." June 3, 1943 Scilla Elworthy "Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno....

June 1, 1563 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury "Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are." June 1, 1924 William Sloane Coffin "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love."

May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."...

May 31, 1884 Phyllis Bottome "It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice." May 31, 1919 Huston Smith "The most powerful moral influence is example."

May 25, 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself." May 25, 1908 Theodore Roethke "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."...

May 24, 1878 Harry Emerson Fosdick "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end." May 24, 1928 Roger Caras "There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish."

May 23, 1799 Thomas Hood "Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther." May 23, 1810 Margaret Fuller "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

May 20, 1806 John Stuart Mill "The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people." May 20, 1889 Margery Allingham "If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a...

May 18, 1904 Shunryu Suzuki "If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few." May 18, 1920 Pope John Paul II "Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."