“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 …
“In the silence that followed, Desdemona felt a strange emotion rising inside her. It spread in the space between her panic and grief–she recognized the emotion; it was happiness. Tears were running down her face and she was already berating God for taking her husband from her but on the other side of these proper …
“No more skipping breakfast; no more dropping out of school. With a windmill, we’d finally release ourselves from the troubles of darkness and hunger. In Malawi, the wind was one of the few consistent things given to us by God, blowing in the treetops day and night. A windmill meant more than just power, it …
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
“The Offer of the College” is the promotional material for my life. I drop the last line — I prefer a “life long” learning curve. My favorite line is “to lose yourself in generous enthusiasms,” with an emphasis on “generous.” “To be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature a familiar …
Furthermore, at certain hours of the day, when the sunshine is poured down at the required angle, the whole mass of the spray enveloping the fairy establishment is brilliantly irised; and it is through so glorious a rainbow atmosphere as this that some of our blessed ouzels obtain their first peep at the world.