"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." – Unknown (credited to Robert Fulghum in a 1982 book, but I doubt this)


"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." -- Archbishop Helder Camara
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    Sun, April 6, 2008 - 8:51 AM
    "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Indira Gandhi
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      Sun, April 20, 2008 - 8:06 AM
      The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?


      Pablo Casals
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      • Re: timeless humanitarian quotes

        Mon, April 21, 2008 - 12:01 AM
        >>>>"The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?" - Pablo Casals<<<<


        This is a totally excellent question. It's such an obvious question, but unfortunately a rare observation.
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          Wed, April 23, 2008 - 8:58 AM
          "Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge . . . is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."
          Bill Bullard, Educator
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    Sun, April 27, 2008 - 5:17 AM
    "35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war." -- Jeff Bridges
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    Fri, May 16, 2008 - 8:40 PM
    "The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything." - Albert Einstein


    "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein


    "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
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    Tue, August 5, 2008 - 5:30 PM
    "It was quite incomprehensible to me ... why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace." - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)


    "mitakuye oyasin"
    (we are all related)
    - Lakota
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    Wed, August 6, 2008 - 3:22 AM
    "If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion." -- Dr. Helen Caldicott, Australia, 4/20/01


    "It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Canada, editor of Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment
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    Thu, August 7, 2008 - 12:54 PM
    "Every fish that swims silent,
    Every bird that flies freely,
    Every doe that steps softly,
    Every crisp leaf that falls,
    All the flowers that grow,
    On this colorful tapestry,
    Somehow they know,
    That if man is allowed,
    To destroy all we need,
    He will soon have to pay
    With his life
    For his greed."

    - Don McLean (from the title song of his album "Tapestry", 1970)
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    Sat, August 9, 2008 - 12:51 PM
    "Courage is not demonstrated by domination of others, but in mastery of our deepest emotions. Transforming fear and hate into compassion for all human beings is a powerful way to turn the world away from darkness." - [quote originator unknown]
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    Mon, August 11, 2008 - 11:41 AM
    "Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race." -- Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at World War II Nuremberg Trials
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    Mon, August 18, 2008 - 7:57 PM
    "I give you a legacy of doers, of people who take risks to chisel the crack wider. Take the strength that you may wage a long battle. Take the pride that you can never stand small. Take the rage that you can never settle for less." - Pat Parker (1944-1989)
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    Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:00 PM
    "... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.” --- Danny Glover
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    Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:02 PM
    "Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air." - Pete Seeger
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