Stacey > Recent Status Updates

"Religions around the world seem to always be stoking turmoil - even though the teachings of those religions say 'love your neighbor' and all of them have the 'do unto others..." Golden Rule."

"Travel promotes understanding at the expense of fear."

"Traveling with no understanding of the local history is like going to a 3-D movie and deciding not to bother with the glasses."

"Today, when textbooks promote this ethnocentrism with their Pilgrim stories, they leave students less able to learn from and deal with people from other cultures."

"...witness the fear and judgment as an addictive pattern rather than a personality trait."

"The root cause of all judgement is the fear of not being good enough, not being worthy of love, and not being safe."

"Attacking someone who has attacked us only creates more attack."

Columbus in his journal speaking of inhabitants in what was probably the Bahamas: "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased."

"Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.

"Oppression is a sport for the small-minded. Empathy is the path to true power."