Category: Quote of the Month

You cannot fight a battle you don’t think exists.” -John Eldridge Most of us live in peaceful neighborhoods, where gunshots don’t awaken us in the night, but just because we don’t hear the gunshots, doesn’t mean they are not being fired. As I was driving north on College Avenue on Saturday, I was stopped by…Continue reading Quote of the Month: June 2019 →

I never let my schooling get in the way of getting an education.” -Mark Twain Graduation day is looming for many of our children—a time when we take a nostalgic look back wondering what they’ve learned, hoping they’ve learned enough. But in fact most of what they learn is not taught in the classroom, it…Continue reading Quote of the Month: May 2019 →

If you’re only going to look for your keys under the street light, you’re never going to find your keys.” -Anonymous Scientists and others refer to this as the “Streetlight effect” which represents a form of bias in searching for answers. It comes from a joke that was published in a Massachusetts newspaper in 1924…Continue reading Quote of the Month: April 2019 →

When our thoughts are filled with hate against anyone, negro or white, we exist in a living hell that is as real as hell will every be.” -George Washington Carver For all of us who need reminding, George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1860 and rose to brilliance and world-wide celebrity…Continue reading Quote of the Month: March 2019 →

My wife and I were happy for 20 years, then we met each other.” -Rodney Dangerfield The late Rodney Dangerfield was a comedian whose career spanned the 60s, 70s, and 80s. He was a regular on The Tonight Show and had his own New York night club. For a man who built his entire persona…Continue reading Quote of the Month: February 2019 →

How long will it take? I come to say that however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because no lie can live forever.” -Martin Luther King Jr., at the Alabama capitol in Montgomery, March 25, 1965 Watch Clarence Moore, Northside New Era Baptist Church recounting King’s speech at St….Continue reading Quote of the Month: January 2019 →

God bless us, everyone!” -Tiny Tim, in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” In 1843, Charles Dickens whose last three books had been flops, now had a wife, pregnant with child number five, and a publisher who was threatening to substantially reduce his income. He had to produce another book—and quickly. The first chapter came to…Continue reading Quote of the Month: December 2018 →

To ignore the facts does not change the facts.” -Andy Rooney ancy quoted some startling statistics about fatherless homes during one of our published Round Table discussions. Today 50 percent of children are born into fatherless homes across the country, and the number is 75 percent in some minority communities. She pointed out the importance…Continue reading Quote of the Month: November 2018 →

A place where Jews are not safe is a place where no one is safe.” -Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis The people streamed in. Traffic on Meridian Street was at a standstill at 5:30 Monday night. Standing room only was augmented by another great room where the proceedings were televised for all to…Continue reading Quote of the Month: October 2018 →

The only white people that thank Jesus are Republicans and ex-crackheads.” -Michael Che at the Emmys The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards program opened a few days ago from Los Angeles with a slew of political jokes and jabs as expected, but one remark from comedian Michael Che left many viewers wondering why they had tuned…Continue reading Quote of the Month: September 2018 →