Tag: politics
Angela Merkel Quote – Women
“I am not here for women only….but also for women.”
Adrien Morceau art.
Read Angela Merkel’s bio.
Rosa Luxemburg Quote – Militarism
“…we are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state.”
“Emile Bernard art.
Read the Rosa Luxemburg bio.
Betty Williams Quote – Patriotism
“Patriotism kills.”
Ayn Rand Quote ~ Ideas
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default…who refuse to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting…who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined.”
Mairead Maguire Quote ~ Peace
“If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow the seeds of nonviolence here and now, in the present.”
Constance Markievicz Quote ~ Freedom
“While Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible…”
Etta Palm d’Aelders Quote ~ Rights
“He who votes against the rights of another, whatever that person’s religion, colour or sex maybe, has by the same token forsworn his own.”
Art by Theodor Kaufmann.
Palm d’Aelders bio.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quote ~ Women
“Women are more for consensus politics, more for looking at different options, so women have a tremendous role in the world today.”
Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quote ~ Nonviolence
“Nonviolence pursues dialogue, seeks reconciliation, listens to the truth in our opponents, rejects militarism and allows God’s spirit to transform us socially and politically.”
Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quote ~ Environment
“We need to take seriously our green politics where we start protecting the earth. We need to work together as a human family.”
Abbott F. Graves art.
Mairead Corrigan bio.
Benazir Bhutto Quote ~ Peace
“I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed by bigotry, intolerance and inflexible traditions.”
Art by Abbot F. Graves.
Benazir Bhutto bio.
Benazir Bhutto Quote ~ Islam
“I see Islam as committed to tolerance, equality and to the principal of democracy.”
Art by Alice Pike Barney.
Benazir Bhutto bio.
Indira Ghandi Quote ~ Shake Hands
Gretta Vosper Quote ~ Belief
“What religious belief in the afterlife has caused us to do, and continues to cause us to do to the earth, to ourselves and to one another, has ranged from helpful, through harmful, all the way to heinous.”
Art by Carlos Schwabe.
Gretta Vosper bio.
