BIRTHDAYS & QUOTATIONS

August 15, 1613 Jeremy Taylor "If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous." August 15, 1944 Linda Ellerbee "I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we...

August 13, 1818 Lucy Stone "It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right." August 13, 1933 Joycelyn Elders "We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start...

August 12, 1774 Robert Southey "Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain." August 12, 1948 Sue Monk Kidd "There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev....

August 11, 1921 Alex Haley "Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help." August 11, 1970 Charles M. Blow "America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make...

August 10, 1810 Camillo di Cavour "The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." August 10, 1858 Anna Julia Cooper "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very...

August 9, 1593 Izaak Walton "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business." August 9, 1896 Jean Piaget "The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who...

January 8, 1170 St. Dominic de Guzman "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil." August 8, 1694 Francis Hutcheson "That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery."...

August 7, 1833 Powell Clayton "Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone." August 7, 1933 Elinor Ostrum “There is no reason to believe...

August 6, 1775 Daniel O'Connell "Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong." August 6, 1808 Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

August 4, 1810 Robert Purvis "It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest." August 4, 1961 Barack Obama "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the...

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...

August 1, 1818 Maria Mitchell "We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own." August 1, 1819 Herman Melville...

July 30, 1881 Smedley Butler "War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups...

July 29, 1878 Don Marquis "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" July 29, 1905 Dag Hammarskjold "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

July 28, 1902 Karl Popper "There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." July 28, 1977 Manu Ginobili "If you...

July 27, 1870 Hilaire Belloc "Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun." July 27, 1905 Leo Durocher "You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."

July 25, 1880 Morris Raphael Cohen "If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good." July 25, 1898 Eric Hoffer "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that...

July 24, 1783 Simon Bolivar "Judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." July 24, 1920 Bella Abzug "Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly...

July 23, 1892 Haile Selassie "It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked." July 23, 1969 Raphael Warnock "When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression."

July 21, 1664 Matthew Prior "Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way." July 21, 1911 Marshall McLuhan "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

July 20, 1304 Petrarch "Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good." July 20, 1971 Sandra...

July 19, 1922 George McGovern "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." July 19, 1961 Harsha Bhogle "Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later....

July 17, 1937 Stephen Levine "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" July 18, 1902 Jessamyn West "It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more...

July 16, 1862 Ida B. Wells "The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." July 16, 1953 Dean Ornish "The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

July 15, 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst "If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom...

July 13, 1793 John Clare "The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing." July 13, 1934 Wole Soyinka "A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts."

July 12, 1817 Henry David Thoreau "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." July 12, 1895 Oscar Hammerstein "You've got to be taught...

July 9, 1893 Dorothy Thompson "The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness." July 9, 1905 Myles Horton “Nothing will change until we change — until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.”

July 8, 1621 Jean de La Fontaine  "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." July 8, 1952 Marianne Williamson "Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will...

July 7, 1906 Leroy Satchel Paige "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." July 7, 1933 David McCullough "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."