Bearing witness Quote by Maxine Kumin Download Open image “It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.” — Maxine Kumin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bearing witness Ifs Important Matter Witness
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in… — Erna Paris Copy Share
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Copy Share Image
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share
“As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose. After all, there was a reason why here and hear were seperated by so little and sounded one like the other. Bearing witness to her, he heard her and was there for her because that was all you could do… — J.R. Ward Copy Share
Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth. — Brent Stirton Copy Share Image
Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get,… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“The discipline of witness takes seriously the biblical mandate of bearing witness to Jesus by building nonmanipulative relationships with eternity in view.” — Kenneth D. Boa Copy Share Image
“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share
“...[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...” — William Morris Copy Share Image
“What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage.” — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Modern 3D cinema technology works by ensuring your left eye sees one image while your right sees another. But they could, presumably, issue one pair of specs comprising two left-eye lenses (for children to wear), and another with two right-eye lenses (for adults). This would make it possible for parents to take their offspring to the cinema and watch two… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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