“We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back.” -- Howard Zinn

Foregiveness is the economy of the heart... Foregiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred and the waste of spirit.

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

Audrey Hepburn


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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.”

Jackson Browne

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”

Mitch Albom


"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. "

Bob Dylan



“To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.”

Buddha


"What is done for you - allow it to be done.
What you must do yourself - make sure you do it."

Khawwas (Essential Sufism)



"Whatever we perceive in the world around us tends to reflect who we are and what we care about most deeply, as in the old saying, "When a thief sees a saint, all he sees are his pockets."

Robert Frager

"Some say history repeats itself. It doesn't. It only appears that way to those too lazy or incurious to look at the history."

Heard on an early morning news talkshow regarding Bush's comments on leaving Iraq will have the same results as the US withdrawal from Vietnam.

"It is transparently clear that the mass vendetta against Michael Vick isn't really about love for dogs, but hatred of Black people who don't kiss white ass."--Dave Zirin

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. "

-Confucius

Peace...


No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under leadership composed of average human beings."
-- Peter Drucker



Kai

It seems like every week I get an e-mail from someone demanding to know why there's no White History Month, or White Entertainment Television, or why whites aren't allowed to have organizations to defend "our" interests, the way people of color are, without being thought of as racists. One of these internet missives, which has been making the rounds lately on MySpace and other popular networking sites, implies that whites are somehow oppressed because we can't get away with calling people of color any number of racial slurs (a litany of which the author then proceeds to recite, almost gleefully), while persons of color presumably call us names like "cracker," "honky," or "hillbilly" all the time.--Tim Wise

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

~ T. Roosevelt

It is better to be right and march into hell than to follow a bunch of fools into heaven.

~ John Henrik Clarke

If you don't tell it like it really was, it can never be as it ought to be.

~ Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

If the first woman God ever made
was strong enough to turn the world
upside down, all alone
together women ought to be able to turn it
rightside up again.

--- Sojourner Truth

My end all be all.

" Africa shall develop an aristocracy of its own, but it shall be based upon service and loyalty to race. Let all Negroes work toward that end."

"For peace of mind... resign as General Manager of the universe."

- Larry Eisenberg

"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

- Chinese proverb

"Everyone has a stupid-stick with their name on it... and every once in a while it comes around and smacks them."

- my mother

Charity sees the need, not the cause.