Political Quotes

“in a world where too often neighbors have become strangers, the meaning of ``Love thy neighbor'' has dwindled. Fred Rogers never lost that spirit. He accepted us into his neighborhood, into his home, and presented our children with a message that you should be loved for who you are. ``The whole idea,'' said Mr. Rogers, ``is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who needs it.'' Fred Rogers recognized the power of television to carry out that message of caring, and become involved in children's broadcasting during its infancy. In the early 1950s he began working in public television at WQED, the first community public television station in the nation. On his lunch breaks, he attended Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and graduated magna cum laude with the Class of 1962 with his Master's in Divinity. The day after graduation he was called to Canada to being MISTEROGERS, the show that would evolve into Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on his return to Pittsburgh a year later. Mr. Rogers' teaching did not end at the close of each broadcast, or even when he left the studio.”