Bill McKibben Quotes
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
McKibben, Bill. The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation. Eerdmans, 1994, p. 45.
Fiji had been divided ethnically between the indigenous tribes and Indian immigrants. The latter were pushing for modern democracy and the latter wanted it tempered by traditional authority of tribal leaders and traditional values.
Kennedy said that he was quoting Dante. However, he or his speechwriter, got the quote wrong. In the Devine Comedy, Dante had a hot place in hell for the neutral, but the hottest place was reserved for traitors. Many people since then use this quote and attribute incorrectly to Dante because Kennedy’s version is the only one with which they have come in contact.
She was found guilty of treason because she had passed out leaflets criticizing the Nazi regime on a university campus. The non violent resistance tactics were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
William Ernest McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change.
