BIRTHDAYS & QUOTATIONS

May 7, 1754 Joseph Joubert "A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." May 7, 1861 Rabindranath Tagore "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

May 5, 1479 Guru Amar Das “They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives.” May 5, 1813 Søren Kierkegaard "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

May 4, 1796 Horace Mann "Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge." May 4, 1916 Jane Jacobs "Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes...

May 3, 1849 Jacob Riis "I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that...

April 28, 1926 Nell Harper Lee "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." April 28, 1948 Terry Pratchett "It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone,...

April 26, 1564 William Shakespeare "In time we hate that which we often fear." April 26, 1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein "A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."

April 18, 1813 James McCune Smith "Freedom and Liberty are not synonyms. Freedom is an essence; Liberty, an accident. Freedom is born with a man; Liberty may be conferred upon him… Freedom is the gift of God; Liberty, the creature of society. Liberty may be taken away...

April 16, 1889 Charlie Chaplin "We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” April 16, 1906 Wendell Johnson...

April 16, 1844 Anatole France "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." April 16, 1924 Madanjeet Singh “Ideas have never succeeded in isolation unless they translated...

April 15, 1889 A. Philip Randolph "Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious...

April 13, 1840 Samuel Ullman "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." April 13, 1906 Samuel Beckett "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try...

April 10, 1930 Dolores Huerta "If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?" April 10, 1954 Annie Lamott "The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns...

April 9, 1905 J. William Fullbright "The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute." April 9, 1929 Joyce Appleby "Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being,...

April 8, 563 Buddha "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." April 8, 1938 Kofi Annan "To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for,...

April 2, 1840 Emile Zola "If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow." April 3, 1822 Edward Everett Hale "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can...

April 1, 1929 Milan Kundera "The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history ... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." April 1, 1940 Wangari Muta Maathai "We owe it...

March 29, 1918 Pearl Bailey "Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence." March 30, 1903 Countee Cullen "For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain...

March 25, 1906 A.J.P. Taylor "There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment—and nothing more corrupting." March 25, 1925 Flannery O'Connor "Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

March 24, 1897 Wilhelm Reich "Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness." March 24, 1936 David Suzuki "We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're...

March 21, 1806 Benito Juarez "Peace is the respect for the rights of others." ("El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.") March 22, 1930 Derek Bok "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

March 20, 1612 Anne Bradstreet "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." March 20, 1828 Henrik Ibsen "Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."

March 16, 1839 René François Armand Prudhomme "The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up." March 16, 1958 Jorge Ramos "Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a...

March 15, 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg "If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers." March 15, 1975 will.i.am (William James Adams) "I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have...

March 11, 1544 Torquato Tasso "The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe." March 11, 1952 Douglas Adams "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic...