2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
Context: It's easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward. It is easier to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is one rule that lies at the heart of every religion: that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples, a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian, or Muslim or Jew. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions around the world. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.
2000s, 2001, Islam is Peace (September 2001)
“Respect the beliefs of other people, so your faith remains strong.”
Youssef Bey Karam Foundation
“While memory lasts and pulses beat,
The thought of Dido shall be sweet.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 124
“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”
Source: Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 458.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Context: Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ends at river shore, his common humanity is enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town or his views and the color of his skin. It is — It is your job, the task of young people in this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.
" Sonnet. Addressed to the Same http://www.bartleby.com/126/27.html" (Benjamin Robert Haydon)
Poems (1817)
