We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears. We're probably less adaptable than them, anyway. The farther you are from the… — David Titley Copy Share Image
The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because… — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
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I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti),… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
My friend's granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in… — Julien Temple Copy Share Image
No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of… — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the… — MURS Copy Share Image
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
They [Federal Goverment] don't care if I am guilty or innocent. I serve their purpose in here. Other than what I have… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over,… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble… — Moby Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
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We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
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If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Now I don't have to explain to the world about India's position. The world is unanimously appreciating India's position. And the world… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image