Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A. Philip Randolph

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Joan Baez, "Daybreak"

I do not doubt that one can have a spiritual experience, but I'm convinced that to the degree that it is induced it will be fabricated, and therefore deceptive. (Perhaps that explains in part my total lack of interest in drugs. I feel that I know there is no shortcut to enlightenment.)

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Loren Eiseley

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Ayn Rand

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Victor Hugo

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

T.S. Eliot

For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Loren Eiseley

[Man's] basic and oldest characteristic [is] that he is a creature of memory, a bridge into the future, a time binder. Without this recognition of continuity, love and understanding between the generations becomes impossible.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Joan Baez, "Daybreak"

My father wrote that it always amazed him how I came to conclusions intuitively which took him years to realize.

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Reinhold Niebuhr, "The Irony of American History"

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.