When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.