“Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.” Quote by Mal Fletcher
“It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.” HumansImportantAliveStayingBetrayStaying Alive1984 Movie Author:George Orwell
“I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside” KnowsGivingFeelsBelieveHumansCultureIndividualI BelieveHuman BeingsDecisionSituationMovementAliensMidstDividedIsolatedGiving In Author:Parker J. Palmer
“... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility” RealityOpportunityGrowsMy OwnViewsPossibilityThreatStranger Author:Parker J. Palmer
“In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives” WorldWantPersonsSelfFactsMightChoicesGivenCommunityViewsGraceUpsetMotiveCompanionServingOur ChoicesSelf Serving Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsLittlesJoyCommitment Author:Kenneth Patchen
“Why shouldn't you think it's crazy to believe in a green deer? All your life you have been taught to believe in only what you can use-to set on the table, to put in the bank, to build a house with. What possible use would a green deer be to anyone? Who would believe in a man with a blazing bush in his cart? Then let me tell you that it is beliefs just such as these that are the only hope of the world. Let me tell you that until men are ready to believe in the green deer and the strange carter, we shall not lift our noses above the bloody mess we have made of our living.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveHas BeensMadeUseHouseBeliefCrazyTaughtStrangeReadyLet MeTablesGreenMessLiftsNosesBloodyCarterDeerCartsBlazing Author:Kenneth Patchen
“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action” MeanDoeActionEvilPrinciplesStruggleCreativeViolenceBuildingDemandHatredMethodActiveOppressionCompromiseCourageousPassiveUsing MeAcquiescenceDisunity Author:Pope John Paul II
“We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do” BelieveHardI BelieveJustice Author:Gene Robinson
“You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!” IfsKnowsAnimalKnow HowGrewPleaseHolesForestsDesertStreamsLayersSalmonOzoneOzone Layer Author:Severn Cullis-Suzuki