“If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.” IfsWorldWayWantMayStatesBigsActionNextEnergyChallengesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesGenerationsConditionsSecurityConflictDeserveTreatsFundamentalsClimateCrowdsTerrorismFuelAppetiteFossilsNext GenerationHeadlinesFossil FuelUneasyRenewable EnergyPersianBig ChallengesPersian GulfEnergy SecurityBold ActionsPersistance Author:Robert Redford
“The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with respect. Today, tolerant means - 'you must approve of everything I do.' There's a difference between tolerance and approval. Jesus accepted everyone no matter who they were. He doesn't approve of everything I do, or you do, or anybody else does either. You can be accepting without being approving.” MayMeanDoeMatterProblemTodayUsedJesusDifferencesAcceptingChangedGayTreatsAcceptedToleranceDisagreeApprovalGay MarriageApproving Author:Rick Warren
“The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."” MayPersonsGovernmentActionRacePracticeClearEqualRacismStandardsTreatsAccountsConstitutionProtectionExperimentsDiscriminationOfficialsSuspectsAffirmative ActionAffirmativeEqual Protection Author:Potter Stewart
“It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.” HumansMayRealSoulEndsPlayInspirationMightEarthLastsLife IsFaithUniverseHeavenStarsObjectsJokesGardenTasksTreatsFinalsSecureInnocenceHuman LifeHolidayHuman SoulPlaygrounds Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.” MayBookSoulEndsMatterWholeHandsEvilHeavenJusticeDarknessHellDutyReaderWeaknessConscienceAngelTreatsBlindInjusticeStartingDetailsExceptionGapsAppetiteDecayDaylightArrivalsStarting PointLimboFalsityHydra Author:Victor Hugo
“Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.” IfsKnowsMayDoeMadeStillsTwoAsksLostAnswersPowerfulKnownTreeTreatsStrangerBreatheForestsBranchesWhere You ArePermissionBack AgainRavensWherever You AreBeside YouWrensTwo Trees Book:Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems Source: Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems
“I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.” MayFightingEnemyPathAdviceMercyTreatsSurrenderRevolutionaryGuidanceUnbrokenGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever Surrender Author:Eamonn Ceannt