• We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. -Benjamin Franklin, Freedom Fighter

  • We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Fighter

  • Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. -Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher

  • A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity. -Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher

  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

  • Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi, Mystic

  • If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes, Philosopher

  • A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Abraham Lincoln, President

  • Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein, Scientist

  • Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom Fighter

- July 4, 2017 -

Independence Day, 2017

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Read more »

- May 29, 2017 -

Memorial Day, 2017

To the Congress and President, on the occasion of Memorial Day 2017 … that these dead shall not have died in vain.  Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. At the end of the movie Saving Private Ryan, as Captain Read more »

- January 16, 2017 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2017

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King Jr. I write on what would be Martin Luther King Jr.’s 88th birthday, five days before Donald Trump is to be sworn Read more »

- November 23, 2016 -

Thanksgiving, 2016

Someone just dropped a cognitive dissonance cluster bomb on the public. Heads exploded. Cognitive dissonance set in. Weird theories came out. This is the cleanest and clearest example of cognitive dissonance you will ever see. … Scott Read more »

- July 4, 2016 -

Independence Day, 2016

These are the times that try men’s souls. — Thomas Paine, January 1776 Six months after Thomas Paine’s Common Sense brought these words to the American public, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and 53 other founders Read more »

- May 30, 2016 -

Memorial Day, 2016

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address We the people Read more »

- January 18, 2016 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2016

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ Martin Luther King, Read more »

- November 26, 2015 -

Thanksgiving, 2015

Start Close in … David Whyte I am most thankful for the breath of life, for without it I am nothing … reminded by my very own breath of those who no longer breath … those whose Read more »

- July 4, 2015 -

Independence Day, 2015

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Read more »

- May 25, 2015 -

Memorial Day, 2015

… that these dead shall not have died in vain. … Abraham Lincoln Rita and I had the pleasure last month to spend a few days in Boston, the cradle of Liberty. One of the places we Read more »

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