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Civil Rights Movement: Brooklyn, April 15, 1947

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

Brooklyn Dodgers Home Page Jackie Robinson Sites Jackie Robinson Foundation "Jackie Robinson: Athlete and American Par Excellence" by Patrick Henry video clip of Jackie Robinson's last public appearance

Michel de Montaigne

"It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own ass. The most beautiful lives, to my mind are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity."

Montaigne Studies home page "The Rise of the Essay: Montaigne and the Novel" by Patrick Henry

  

Voltaire

Ecrasez l'infâme

Voltaire Foundation Voltaire Society of America "Contre Barthes" by Patrick Henry

The Holocaust

The question to which we must respond is not the excruciating unknowable: "What would I have done had I lived in Occupied Europe?" but the more urgently concrete: "What am I doing now to build a world where another Auschwitz would be unthinkable"?

Holocaust Web Sites

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remembering the Holocaust Remember: Cybrary of the Holocaust Holocaust Teacher Resource Center Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: Bibliography Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Fighting Denial Women and the Holocaust Jewish Foundation for the Righteous "Banishing the Coercion of Despair: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the Holocaust Today" by Patrick Henry

PEACE

"Injustice must be resisted. No doubt the non-violent way is always the best, but where that does not come naturally the violent way is both necessary and honorable. Inaction here is rank cowardice.... It must be shunned at all cost." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." --Mahatma Gandhi

MAHATMA GANDHI Research and Media Service M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Howard Sochurek/LIFE

"The choice today is no longer between violence and non-violence. It is either non-violence or non-existence." "Peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, it is a means by which we arrive at that goal."   --Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Seattle Times: Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The only way truly to 'overcome' an enemy is to help him become other than an enemy... To punish and destroy the oppressor is merely to initiate a new cycle of violence and oppression. The only real liberation is that which liberates both the oppressor and the oppressed at the same time from the same tyrannical automatism of the violent process which contains in itself the curse of irreversibility." "Compassion is proportionate to detachment." "The purpose of the journey is not to go home but to become fully homeless." --Thomas Merton

The Thomas Merton Foundation Thomas Merton: The Earliest Stories

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