Quotations

Creativity

Progressive Movement  

Transformation  

Spiritual Politics  

Narrative  

Politics  

Democracy  

America  - culture, economics, education

Worldview - how we understand the world and our place in it

Our World and the Human Family  

American presidents about world diplomacy - Washington through Obama 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Selected Quotations

We have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it. Hubert H. Humphrey

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now is the time. Do not mourn, organize! Molly Ivins

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.  Barbara Jordan

We must talk about community. We must talk about service. We must not be a part of the cynicism that says we can't do better as a nation. We must encourage Americans to be their own best selves. Paul Wellstone

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential that its solution. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination. Albert Einstein

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert Kennedy

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.  Abraham Lincoln

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross. Dwight D. Eisenhower