BIRTHDAYS & QUOTATIONS

August 3, 1858 Paul Sabatier "Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest." August 3, 1920 P.D. James...

June 11, 1880 Jeannette Rankin "What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision." June 11, 1959 Hugh Laurie "It's a terrible...

February 28, 1533 Michel de Montaigne "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." February 28, 1865 Wilfred Grenfell "The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."

February 27, 1861 Rudolf Steiner "A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living." February 27, 1886 Hugo Black "A union of government...

February 27, 1861 Rudolf Steiner "A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living." February 27, 1934 Ralph Nader "A society that has...

February 24, 1928 Michael Harrington "That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen." February 24, 1955 Steve Jobs "Things...

February 23, 1868 W.E.B. Du Bois "I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color;...

February 22, 1857 Robert Baden-Powell "No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way. " February 22, 1938 Ishmael...

February 18, 1836 Ramakrishna "When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited." February 18, 1934 Audre Lorde "When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

February 17, 1902 Marian Anderson "Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating." February 17, 1942 Huey Newton "You can jail a Revolutionary, but...

February 16, 1948 Eckhart Tolle "To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking...

February 14, 1818 Frederick Douglass "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be...

February 10, 1910 Dominique Pire "Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice." February 10, 1930 E. L. Konigsburg "I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience...

February 8, 1878 Martin Buber "There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do...

February 7, 1478 Thomas More "And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others." February 7, 1909 Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara "When I feed...

February 4, 1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction." February 4, 1913 Rosa Parks "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be...

February 3, 1909 Simone Weil "Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand." February...

February 1, 1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin "Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought." February 1, 1972 Leymah Gbowee "Anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many...

January 31, 1915 Thomas Merton "The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." January 31, 1919 Jackie Robinson "The most luxurious...

January 30, 1909 Saul Alinsky "As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin...

January 29, 1927 Edward Abbey "Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top." January 29, 1939 Germaine Greer "One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

January 28, 1853 José Martí "We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political...

January 25, 1882 Virginia Woolf "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." January 25, 1933 Corazon Aquino "It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a...

January 24, 1670 William Congreve "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." January 24, 1862 Edith Wharton "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

January 22, 1561 Francis Bacon "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." January 22, 1788 George Gordon, Lord Byron "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who...

January 20, 1930 Buzz Aldrin "If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger." January 20, 1966 Rainn Wilson "Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and...

January 19, 1943 Janis Joplin "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." January 19, 1946 Dolly Parton "Storms make trees take deeper roots."

January 18, 1689 Montesquieu "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. January 18, 1971 Binyavanga Wainaina "All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit."  

January 16, 1932 Dian Fossey "When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future." January 16, 1933 Susan Sontag "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the...

January 15, 1662 Moliere "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." January 15, 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do...