“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” — Martin Luther King Jr. (after Paul Tillich)
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Dan Pallotta Frees the Nonprofits -
Where doing well and doing good meet.
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” — Bertolt Brecht
“Going forward, publishing is no longer about ‘the printing press, or the server, or the cave drawing for that matter… It is about creating an essential human connection.’” — Martin Niseholtz, senior VP of digital operations for the New York Times, from a recent article in Publishers Weekly. Click here for the whole article.
“I think writing is the purest of art forms. When your thoughts and intentions are conveyed as directly as possible to another person, no need exists for a translation. Words can be the most direct means of sharing our thoughts.” — Maya Lin, BOUNDARIES
“If I know nothing else, I know one thing is true—that the sacred is in the ordinary, in the common things.” —
Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), in Masked and Anonymous
“America is a place and a story, made of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, Biblical allusions that lose all their certainties in American air.” —
Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come
Grooming social entrepreneurs -
At Georgetown University (my alma mater), students are learning about different kinds of business models in the classroom and in the community.
“I feel I exist on the boundaries/ somewhere between science and art/ art and architecture/ public and private/ east and west. I am always trying to find a balance between these opposing forces, finding the place where opposites meet. Water out of stone/ glass that flows like water/the fluidity of a rock/ stopping time/ existing not on either side/ but on the line that divides/ and that line takes on a dimensionality/ it takes on a sense of place and shape.” — Maya Lin, BOUNDARIES