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CIVIL SOCIETY…
CIVIL SOCIETY… many struggle,
some dream,
CIVIL SOCIETY… many struggle,
some dream, all imagine
more...
I don’t know what peace is,
but I love it.
~ Afghan refugee, age 6
Our choices will create the world we
pass on.
~ Paul Rogat Loeb
It is not your obligation to
complete the task,but neither are you at liberty to desist
from it.
~Pirkei Avot 2:16, quoting
Rabbi Tarfon
what can i contribute?
It takes a thousand voices
to tell a single story.
~ Native American saying
Powerful communities create
a place for everyone’s gifts.
There are no strangers.
~ Mary Nelson
what is required for true dialogue?
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
~ Walter Cronkite
When you go to school,
you’re supposed to learn
how to listen.
~ Anne Dodge Wauneka
Education’s purpose is to replace an
empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Become a possibilitarian.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
be passionate,
be passionate,take a stand,
be passionate,take a stand,
speak out,
be passionate,take a stand,
speak out,let your voice
be heard.
if yours isn’t the Only right answer,
what are the other right answers?
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all
knowledge.
~ Thomas Berger
Universities are about universalizing
the human spirit.
~ Samuel Betances
If you won't be better tomorrow
than you were today,
then what do you need tomorrow for?
~Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
Upside-down Trees swingin’ freeBuses float and buildings dangle:Now and then it’s nice to seeThe world – from a different angle.
~ Shel Silverstein, “New World”
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the
ark.
~ Howard Ruff
The problem to be faced is:
How to combine loyalty
to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel
start a tradition.
We are what we repeatedly do.
~ Aristotle
when do we know that we’ve done enough?
We didn’t save ourselves.
We tried to save each other.
~ September 11, 2001 Survivor
everyone has a story –share yours and engage
others.
LIVE so when your children
think of fairness, caring and integrity,
they think of you.
Treat the Earth well. It is not inherited
from your parents. It is borrowed
from your children.
~ Kenyan proverb
As my forebears planted for me, so am I planting
for my children.
~Babylonian Talmud Ta’anit 23a
dare we dream of a world
where children have no memory of war?
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
We need to finda still point
in a turning world.
~ T.S. Eliot
Talk doesn’t cook rice.
~ Chinese proverb
We must learn to live as brothers or perish together
as fools.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never deprive someone of hope, it may be all they
have.
~ H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
be real.
be real.be humble.
be real.be humble.
acknowledge others’ self worth.
Think of the poorest person you have
ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.
~ Inscribed over Gandhi’s tomb
You really can change the world if you care enough.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Most of the things worth doing in the
world had been declared impossible
before they were done.
~ Louis Brandeis
what does it take to really understand…
what does it take to really understand…
CIVIL SOCIETY?
IMAGINE
DISCUSS
REFLECT
ACT
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We are the leaders we have been waiting for.
~ Sweet Honey and the Rock
SUMMIT 2008
Presentationcreated by:Lori S. Yadin
&Alyssa Cohen Sherman