“Congress: Bingo with billions.”~Red Skelton American actor, artist, and comedian Red Skelton was born on this day in 1913.
“Congress: Bingo with billions.”~Red Skelton American actor, artist, and comedian Red Skelton was born on this day in 1913.
“…racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”~Chris Crutcher American novelist and family therapist, Chris Crutcher was born on this day in 1946.
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”~Ida B. Wells American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and leader during the early civil rights movement, Ida B. Wells was born on this day in 1862.
“Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.”~Emmeline Pankhurst British political activist Emmeline Pankhurst was born on this day in 1858.
“No system in the world is so well-designed that it can’t grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.”~Esther Dyson Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator, and philanthropist Esther Dyson was born on this day in 1951,
A cool wind sweeps through the ancient forest, rustling the leaves of the towering oaks, whispering secrets in the oldest of languages. The trees stand like silent sentinels, branches heavy with the weight of centuries, roots reaching deep in the earth. To those who know the woods, as does Mu’Yan, it is home, a vast, … Continue reading Mu’Yan: The Lost Child
“The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.”~Mark Hatfield American politician and educator Mark Hatfield was born on this day in 1922.
“The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.”~Ed Markey American politician Ed Markey was born on this day in 1946.
“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”~David Brinkley American television newscaster David Brinkley was born on this day in 1920.
“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”~Samuel Eliot Morison … Continue reading Random Quote for July 09, 2025
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