Daily News Digest

 Quote of the day.
“The future of Islam here in Mali rests on many things, and it is threatened. We need a stable government, a functioning democracy and an end to illiteracy so that people can actually read the Qu''ran for themselves. Our Islam needs to continue to be an Islam of tolerance or we will all be pushed towards violence." Shiekh Thiermo Thiam, head of the Sufi Tidjania sect in Mali, on the threat of extremist ideologies to a tradition of religious tolerance.
(Guardian)

Quote of the day.
“We’re helping poor people; before we were fighting rich people. It’s still the same equation. But it’s much more glass half full, optimistic, giving, and legal.” Goldi Guerra, 45, who camped at Zuccotti Park with Occupy Wall Street, and since Hurricane Sandy has spent nearly every day helping victims on Staten Island; a shift some activists see as a sellout of the core message of income inequality.
(New York Times)

Quote of the day.
"We felt it was important, while that generation is still with us in fairly substantial numbers, to bring them together to not only honor them, but in their presence make a commitment to them that not only this institution but the people we reach will carry forward this legacy." Sara Bloomfield, Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, as elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them are gathering for the 20^th anniversary of the Museum.
(Associated Press)

Quote of the day.
"We’re doing the right thing today. They must be looked upon as those who gave their blood to help redeem the soul of America." Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), as the House voted to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the explosion at a Birmingham, Ala., church in September 1963.
(Chicago Tribune)