I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
A suicide bomber detinated his explosives outside the gates of a United States military base in Bagram, Afghanistan. The explosion killed [...]
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
A second American soldier has admitted premeditating the gang rape of an Iraqi girl and then murdering her along with the rest of her family. Sgt. Paul Cortez admitted to four accounts [...]
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
In truth faith was all little Amillia Taylor had when she was born in Miami, Florida in October. Amillia set the record for being the most premature baby to survive. At birth she weighed ten ounces and was about as long [...]
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
The violence that has plagued Darfur for the past four years seems to have overflowed into Chad. The Janjaweed Arab Militia, mounted warriors riding camels or horses, invaded Eastern Chad leaving behind “ghost villages,” hundreds [...]
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
A conclusion has been reached that humanity is responsible for a majority of the climate changes that are changing the world’s weather and causing intense storms, drought, floods and the melting of the polar [...]
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Why are Dutch Children so happy? It is because they have more freedoms, better schools and stay at home moms. Of course being a rich nation doesn’t hurt either. Unicef has done a study to find the most child friendly places and out of [...]
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
If that is so it may be some time before there is any happiness in the situation involving North Korea’s persuit of nuclear weapons. The six party talks in Beijing seemed to have reached an agreement that may [...]
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Sierra Leone has defeated Ghana in the first segment of Africa’s first Amputee Football Cup. When I say football I do mean Soccer by the way. The Africans have assembled a special league for players that have lost limbs due to [...]
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated….I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by people from the cruelty of human kind.”
It seems that the cruelty of war knows no boundaries. It is [...]
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
In a world that has seemed in recent years to condem itself to madness and savagery it would be very easy for one to give up on humanity. In that [...]