CIVIL SOCIETY…

CIVIL SOCIETY… many struggle,

some dream,

CIVIL SOCIETY… many struggle,

some dream, all imagine

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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