We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give...
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spok...
Altamirano: What was your income last year? Jesuit: Last year, 120,000 escudos. Altamirano: And how was it distributed? Jesuit: It is shared among them equally. This is a community. Altamirano: Ah yes, there is a French radical group that teaches tha...
My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care...
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
Times will change for the better when you change.
We are changed by the things we try to change.
Change is always trivial compared to what doesn't change.
Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
I can't change the world. I have to fix me.
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
Social change comes through people.
In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
Changing the world is not easy.
Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.
My work with teenagers has convinced me that one of the main reasons teenagers are not excited by the gospel is that they do not think they need it. Many parents have successfully raised self-righteous little Pharisees. When they look at themselves, ...
