War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. -Jimmy Carter

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. -Carlo Dossi

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -Helen Adams

…is a video.   Visit Storycorps to view “A Good Man.”   Happy Pride month!  

http://storycorps.org/animation/

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yeats

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…we must do that which we think we cannot.  – Eleanor Roosevelt 

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. -Joel Barker

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. -Charles Simic

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. -Katharine Hepburn