The family is the school of duties – founded on love. – Felix Adler // Family is the first social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family or an extended family of people attracted to each other [...]
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that. - Jane Addams (First American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) // If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly [...]
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature. ~ Voltaire An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. ~ Mohandas Gandhi To believe [...]
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. – George Santayana It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those [...]
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. – Elie Wiesel // There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. “Dear God.” he cried [...]
