CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY many struggle some dream

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’ free Buses float and buildings dangle: Now and then it’s nice to see The 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 23 a

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 find a 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 more DISCUSS more REFLECT more ACT more

We are the leaders we have been waiting for. ~ Sweet Honey and the Rock

SUMMIT 2008

Presentation created by: Lori S. Yadin & Alyssa Cohen Sherman