Society

"For every one torturer, there are a thousand people ready to risk their lives to save another. For every soldier who shoots in a neighborhood, there are a thousand compañeros who help and protect each other." - Isabel Allende ...

"There are more slaves today than at any point in history. 12-27 million forced to work at subsistence pay under threat of violence. The US government estimates 50,000 people work in hidden bondage.  90% are used for sex, indentured domestics ...

"It is likely that I will die in my bed. My successor will die in prison. His successor will die executed in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild ...

"A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it." - Carl T. Rowan ...

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike ...

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Old Greek proverb ...

"We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, ...

“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” - Norman Douglas ...

"Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." - C.S. Lewis ...

"Each and every human person has been created in the "image and likeness" of the One who is the origin of all that Is. We have within us the capacities for wisdom and virtue. With these gifts, and with the ...