In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation can disassociate itself.  Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security…

Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other — that my liberty depends on you being free too. (Barack Obama)

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons,…

There is no worse material poverty than poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.  (Pope Francis)

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.  (John F. Kennedy)

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources.  But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the…

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.   (Pope Francis)

Ask “What’s possible?” not “What’s wrong?”  Keep asking.  (Margaret Wheatley)

There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about.  (Margaret Wheatley)

We are called in this life to do only one thing and that is to continue the work of creation: to bring light everywhere we go.   (Joan Chittister, OSB)