• 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

- 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 »

- January 18, 2015 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2015

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Martin Luther Read more »

- January 21, 2013 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2013

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1964 It is still the Winter of America’s discontent. It is as a Read more »

- January 17, 2012 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2012

  I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech 1964 I grew up in an America Read more »

- January 16, 2011 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2011

I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is once again the Winter of America’s discontent. America is angry. The same anger that was unleashed 43 Read more »

- January 18, 2010 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2010

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr.  I remember when I discovered my own racism. It was in a small town in northeastern Ohio, six Read more »

- January 19, 2009 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2009

“To every thing there is a season.” Ecclesiastes  We are in the season of war. American men and women are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have enemies in a nuclear North Korea and perhaps soon-to-be nuclear Read more »

- January 21, 2008 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2008

“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice!” Martin Luther King, Jr. Sixty years ago, in 1948, Southern Democrats, led by South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, broke from the Democratic Party because Read more »

- January 15, 2007 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2007

“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice!” Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s been more than 40 years since Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” sermon on the steps Read more »

- January 16, 2006 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2006

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. … Read more »

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