~ MoJo ~

Gandhi (and anyone willing to stand up for peace in response to the derision of the "love it or leave it" Neanderthal mentalities),



Golda Meir, Susan B. Anthony (and all the suffragettes), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the "unknown rebel" who stood in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Margaret Sanger, Madeleine Albright, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus Christ (along with Buddha and all the enlightened ones).







"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a absolution. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an ate tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world." ---Elizabeth Cady Stanton



Favorite Quotes:

"Gnothi se auton." Written on Oracle of Delphi Temple in Ancient Greece

"It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't make you absolutely tremble with joy." Julia Child (1912-2004)

"Learning should be a pleasurable experience. If you are not having fun, you are not learning." Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984)

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddha (490?-410? BCE)

"Teaching and learning are two independent processes and usually they do not correlate." MF

"Never forget the joy in singing; you have to be happy. I think that is the biggest, most important thing." Regine Crespin (1927-2007)

"The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person." Voltaire (1694-1778)

"The worst disservice you can do to a person is take away their problem." MF

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

"Anything that is learned is learned slowly, without pushing. Anything you know well is like this. Everything you learned under duress, forcing, through pain, or with effort to succeed is something you forget. You never do them with pleasure, and they are worth nothing." MF

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE-50 CE)

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." Galileo (1564-1642)

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostility." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"...self-knowledge through awareness is the goal of re-education. As we become aware of what we are doing in fact, and not what we say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us." MF