We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as I know, do not agonize about the canine condition. -- Karen Armstrong Virtually every federal agency is now...
A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it. -- Holly Sklar and Rev. Paul Sherry Nukes breed nukes. As long as some nations continue to insist...
The current administration could turn the most milquetoast moderate into a radical. -- Dana Spiotta Silence is not a winning strategy. -- People For the...
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. -- Barnett Brickner Well, I really think he shatters...
I believe the only truly radicalizing force is people's desire to change their own lives for the better. -- Ellen Willis It makes no sense to fight religious...
Critical thought . . . the other national deficit. -- Bumper sticker Politicians scramble to build more prisons than schools and pay guards more than teachers....
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The function of freedom is to free someone else. -- Toni...
There's a Buddhist metaphor that says all religions, gods, saviors, sages, and teachings are so many fingers pointing to the moon. The object, of course, is to...
If you want to eliminate terrorism, you have to address the political problems that gave it birth. -- Charley Reese Most of the calls for "educational reform"...
Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country. -- Bumper sticker Jenna and Barbara are able-bodied citizens well within the age of enlistment....
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. -- Stephen Colbert Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us...
It's a disgrace that in the 21st century in America, we still have so many people who get sick and die, not because their illnesses aren't treatable, but...
Religion is not a two-party system. -- Keila Szpaller Decades ago the Republican Party built its "solid South" with thinly disguised, and sometimes blatant,...
He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche We become fully human when we are aware of another's suffering as if it were...
What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. -- Lea DeLaria There is a lot of talk now...
If Bush said the earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: "Shape of the Earth -- Views Differ." Then they'd quote some...
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell. -- Robin Morgan Solidarity - an injury to one is an injury to all. That...
There isn't necessarily two sides to a story if only one side has all the verifiable facts on their side. -- David Sirota Fearlessness is not the absence of...
Many corporate executives earn more money in a couple of hours than the average factory worker makes in a year. -- John Robbins Bush created a cohesive enemy...
Politically, it's always been advantageous to divide people, to make America a place of warmongers versus wimps, elitists versus morons, gun nuts versus people...
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -- Epicurus All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw Teachers...
I did like President Bush's celebration of National Character Counts Week. He went to Pennsylvania to support Rep. Don Sherwood, who is being sued for...
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process...
Teachers now are expected to staff the permanent emergency rooms of our country's dysfunctional social order. They are expected to compensate for what...
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. -- Bumper sticker Our government...
Iraq burns. We shop. -- Bob Herbert In American work places, bosses routinely snoop into underlings' personal e-mails and monitor our web-surfing practices....
Fairness is a liberal value. Equality is a liberal value. Education is a liberal value. Honesty in government, public service for modest remuneration,...
Happy holidays! Have I just offended you? If you are a member of the American Family Association, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights or the...
Who do you want to be -- Mr. Potter or George Bailey? -- Oliver Willis No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. -- Kofi Annan ...
When Congress passes No Child Left Unfed, No Child Without Health Care and No Child Left Homeless, then we can talk seriously about No Child Left Behind. --...
