"Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence."

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Source : "Colman McCarthy Is Teaching Peace In America’s Schools". "These Days on KPBS" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. April 27, 2010.

Colman McCarthy

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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.”
“In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”
“Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.”

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“Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.”
“I have no trouble selling outâ€”Iâ€™m a benevolent hack, in a certain wayâ€”but I want to pander for something I believe in.”
“Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.”
“I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.”
“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”

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