All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Category Archive: 1929
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years’ War.
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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 together at the table of brotherhood.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.