Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Michael Franti Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s75CPceiCw&feature=related
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 23
Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Michael Franti Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s75CPceiCw&feature=related
Josh Groban (1981) American musician and actor
Teen People Video Short, 20 Teens Who Will Change the World, 2003
J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer
Context: We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts. That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited. But it does mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal responsibility for our behavior; and that our behavior has consequences of a very real and profound nature. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, "You can't change the world." But the world is changing every day. Only question is... who's doing it? You or somebody else?
“Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) Irish politician
Cork address (1885)
Jane Fonda (1937) American actress and activist
Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=230eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,5294465&dq=the-institution-of-marriage-is-obsolete+fonda&hl=en
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: We join together to earth the power of the season and to slip between the worlds, the voices saying to every one of us, "Wake up, you are it, you are a part of the circle of the wise. There is no mystery that has not already been revealed to you. There is no power you do not already have. You share in all the love there is. The goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open heart. She is singing, crying, moaning, wailing, shrieking, crooning to us, to be awake, to commit ourselves to life, to be a lover in the world and of the world, to join our voices in the single song of constant change and creation. For her law is to love all beings, and she is the cup of the drink of life. The circle is ever open, ever unbroken.
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "You Can't Overlook Roberto Clemente" by Al Grady, in The Iowa City Press-Citizen (Wednesday, June 28, 1967), p. 13
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big>
“You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 212
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
Quoted in: Honor Books, W. B. Freeman (2004), God's Little Devotional Book for Girls, p. 205
2000s
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 2.