W.E.B.Du Bois on Sacrifice

The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Source: thinkexist.com

Lorraine Schneider on Peace

War is not healthy for children and other living things.

Lorraine Schneider
1966, Another Mother for Peace

Source: anothermother.org

Artist Wisdom

There is no wrong way to approach the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial" as it makes no grand statements about politics or American ideals. Its sole proposition is that the cost of war is human life.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Artist Maya Lin
Art:21
PBS

Thank you to the Sunrise Rotary in Westerville, Ohio for the 2000 American flags in the Field of Heroes and for bringing us the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall.  Never Forget.

Source: pbs.org

Carl Schurz on Patriotism

The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."

Carl Schurz

Lived in the United States in the 1800s.

Source: wisdomquotes.com

Richard Aldington on Patriotism

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

Source: wisdomquotes.com

Dwight D. Eisenhower on Peace

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source: quotegarden.com

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit on Peace

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian Diplomat

The first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post.

Source: quotegarden.com

Mother Teresa on Peace

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Source: quotegarden.com

John Paul DeJoria on Business

Have the finest quality available.  Then you are in the re-order business and not the selling business.

John Paul DeJoria
Co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems on how to have success in business

How'd You Get So Rich, TV Land

Laurence Boldt on Crisis

Our word 'crisis' comes from a Greek root meaning "to decide." A crisis often results when we fail to decide on the direction we want our lives to take, and a crisis often compels us to make the decision to commit ourselves to a new direction.

Laurence Boldt

Source: How To Find The Work You Love, (c) 1996,2004 Laurence Boldt, Peguin/Compass, p. 30

Stephen Colbert on Current Events

How do we stop the gulf oil spill?  Step 1: Think of Step 1.

Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report
Comedy Central

LeBron James on Reslience

A friend of mine told me, 'I guess you've got to go through a lot of nightmares before you realize your dream.' That's what's going on for me individually right now.

LeBron James 

after his Cleveland Cavaliers were defeated in the NBA playoffs by the Boston Celtics.

Source: time.com

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Progress

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
April 4, 1967

Source: hartford-twp.com

Click here to read this speech in its entirety.

Scott Memmer on Skidding

Look where you want to go, and not at what you might run into. One big mistake novice drivers make is to focus on obstacles.... Unfortunately, the human body has an invisible connection with the mind. When the mind focuses on something, the body follows. Don't do that. Instead, direct your attention to the open space next to the tree. The body -- and car -- will follow.

Scott Memmer
Here's Looking at You, Skid
Driving Tips at Edmunds.com

Source: edmunds.com

Joseph Campbell on Perspective

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

Joseph Campbell from Sukhavati
 
Source: goodreads.com