Morihei Ueshiba Quotes
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
Ueshiba, Morihei. The Essence of Aikido: Spiritual Teachings of Morihei Ueshiba. Compiled by John Stevens, Kodansha International, 1993, p. 16.
At the beginning of his Presidency Roosevelt urged Congress to disarm. A few years later he was urging heavy expenditures for armaments and Congress was then reluctant.
South Africa’s transition from apartheid white minority rule to an interracial society with Black majority rule was one of the great political achievements in history. The Black leadership set a tone of reconciliation and inclusiveness that there was neither back retribution and vengeance, nor extensive white flight. Tutu and Nelson Mandella were two of those most resonsible for the leadership, but the good will and Christian charity of the South African blacks was the key to the success where all other white dominated African nations were NOT able to transition without extensive violence and/or flight.
This included the non-Muslim Arabs and the Jews.
After 15 years under House Arrest by the Military running the country, under great US and World pressure and sanctions she was released, and her party won in a landslide in the first Democratic election the country experienced in many decades. When she assumed power, it was expected that she would change everything that the military government had done, but she was very judicious and changed the substantive issues leaving many of the symbolic u=issues in place.
Morihei Ueshiba was a Japanese martial artist and founder of the martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" Kaiso (開祖) or Ōsensei (大先生/翁先生), "Great Teacher".
