“Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same …
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits—marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education …
“But now I see that I am trying to classify all the prisoners into categories; that, however, is not really possible. Reality is infinitely various when compared to the deductions of abstract thought, even those that are most cunning, and it will not tolerate rigid, hard-and-fast distinctions. Reality strives for diversification. We too had our …
“For a poem to coalesce…there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality that is in no way passive. And a certain freedom of the mind is needed – freedom…to enter the currents of your thought like a glider pilot, knowing that …the buoyancy of your attention will not be suddenly snatched away. Moreover, if …
When I read your call, I knew at once that I wanted to send in something. But I’ll be honest with you, I found it hard to choose just one book! There are so many I could have mentioned. But after thinking some more, I decided that it was Walden by Henry David Thoreau that …
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
After interviewing homeless people around the U.S., Jonathan Kozol returned to his Boston-area hometown: “I shared some of these stories with a woman who works at . . . a local grocery. “You didn’t have to go to San Antonio and Florida,” she said. “There’s hundreds of homeless families just a couple miles from here… …
Clementine Fujimura Professor, Language and Culture Studies United States Naval Academy A book that inspired me early on and motivated me to learn more about Russia as an anthropologist, to study the concept of suffering in Russia, children’s experiences of Russia and ultimately lead me to write my own book “Russia’s Abandoned Children: An Intimate …
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Speech, 1937
“I shall maintain instead that the persons in the initial situation would choose two … principles: the first requires equality in the assignment of rights and duties, while the second holds that social and economic inequalities, for example inequalities of wealth and authority, are just only if they result in compensating benefits for everyone, and …