02/27/09

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. -Thurgood Marshall

02/25/09

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. -James Baldwin

02/24/09

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. -Malcolm X

02/23/09

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you submit to your grief--your time for joy will come, believe me. -Alexander Pushkin

02/20/09

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. -Tom Bradley

02/19/09

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. -Maya Angelou

02/18/09

Every man is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive, and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. -Benjamin E. Mays

02/17/09

Back during the early 1960s there was a United Nations television commercial, the audio portion of which went something like this: "Ignorance, fear, disease, hunger, suspicion, hatred, war." That was it, although I would have added, "greed" and "vengeance" to the list. All or any of these can be the catalyst that turns hierarchical thinking into hierarchical behavior. Amid all this, does tolerance have a chance? Only if we want it to. Only when we want it to. Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. -Octavia Butler