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Buddha
Ralph Bunche

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Josephine Butler

Buddha

Buddha quotes ~
• “If a man by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangles in the bonds of selfishness, will never be free from hatred.
• “Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
• “For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by not-hatred, this is an old rule.”
• “Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked; by these three steps thou will become divine.”
• “Let a wise man blow off impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one, little by little, and from time to time.”
• “He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.”

• Civil Rights 1920-1954 poster
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey

Ralph Bunche
b. 8-7-1904; Detroit, Michigan
d. 12-9-1971

Political scientist, professor, and diplomat Ralph Bunche was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine in the late 1940s. Bunche was the first person of color to be honored with a Nobel Prize.

Bunche was also involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations and in 1963, received the Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy.

Ralph Bunche quotes ~
• “To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering.”

• Civil Rights 1920-1954 poster
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
b. 7-15-1943; Belfast, Northern Ireland

Astro-physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, as a postgraduate student, participated in discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish.

She is very active in the Quaker Peace and Social Witness organization promoting and practicing equality, justice, peace, simplicity and truth.

• women scientists
• Inventions - Telescope poster

Josephine Butler
b. 4-13-1828; Milfield, England
d. 12-30-1906

Victorian era feminist and passionate Christian Josephine Butler was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes and led the long campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. The act, a form of state regulation of prostitution, gave magistrates the power to order the examinations of prostitutes for veneral dieseases and to submit them to a locked hospital for a three month course of treatment. The result was abuse of state power over women by false accusation and severe procedures that, according to Butler, were “surgical rape.”

• A Victorian Feminist Christian: Josephine Butler, Prostitutes and God
• The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands

Nicholas Murray Butler, Giclee Print

Nicholas Murray Butler
b. 4-2-1862; Elizabeth, NJ
d. 12-7-1947; NYC

Nicholas Murray Butler, who shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams, was a philosopher, diplomat, educator, and cofounder of the New York School for the Training of Teachers (later Teacher's College of Columbia University), where he was president from 1902 to 1945 (43 years).

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.” - attributed to Butler