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Sri Chinmoy | During the 2004 Opening Meditation, Sri Chinmoy said : Sri Chinmoy said that although he was brought up in the Hindu tradition, he felt that his only religion was the' Love of God'. |
Osman ?calan | In March 2003, in an interview to western journalists from his refuge in the Qandil mountains, he asserted'' We will never allow ourselves to be disarmed as long as the Kurdish issue is not settled''. |
Bhagwan Gopinath | From around 1938, his devotees started recording and attributing various miracles to him like treating incurable diseases, blessing issueless couple with children, bringing back dead to life as the situation demanded, bilocation, mindreading, materialisation, helping people to see the deity of local shrines like Kheer Bhawani and Hari Parbat in human form and also in the form of their effulgence and many more, which have been meticulously documented primarily by his principal biographer and also by other devotees. |
Vicente Lim | - Brigadier General Vicente Lim, in a letter to one of his sons, 1938'' I am of the firm conviction that the success of national defense will not depend much on the armaments nor the training of our able-bodied men but will depend 90 % on the will of the people to fight for the country.'' |
Boyd Cypert | In November 1928, after the State of Arkansas passed a law banning the teaching of evolution, Cypert stated that he was not going to hunt down offenders, instead that he was going to enforce the law when asked to do so. |
Sergei Udaltsov | In a January 2012 interview, Udaltsov called for'' a direct democracy, where the people would have their say through fair and transparent referendums, where they could interact with authorities using the Internet, where they could have a say in social reforms.'' |
Naomi Wolf | ; Women in Islamic countries Wolf has spoken about the dress required of women living in Muslim countries : ; Defence of Julian Assange The December 20, 2010 airing of Democracy Now ! |
Bert Koenders | In 2009, he criticized Pope Benedict XVI over his assertion that handing out condoms is not the solution to combatting AIDS and actually makes the problem worse. |
Randal Marlin | His 1986 review of Ellul's Money and Power, for example, concludes that it contains'' a wealth of insight'' adding,'' -LSB- a -RSB- s Roman Catholics we have much to learn, and relearn, from this book. |
Yehuda Elkana | Delivering the opening address,' Einstein's Legacy', for Germany's Einstein Year (2005) celebrating the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis, Yehuda remarked : I love Israel and feel a deep loyalty towards it, and hope for its continued existence, and at the same time I warn against strong nationalist tendencies which may endanger the democratic character of the state (I never accepted that there can be such a thing as a genuinely democratic Jewish state, nor can any other religion-based state be fully democratic)... when I publicly called for' The need to forget', against the political manipulation of the Holocaust in Israel (by right-wing and left-wing governments equally), and at the same time I oppose tendencies by some in Germany who wish to' close the chapter' of the Holocaust, I do not think that I am being inconsistent... Israel should leave to the individual the memory he or she wishes to keep up or even to cultivate, while Germany must continuously, publicly, remember that this chapter can and should not be closed. |
Ahn Sahng-hong | The unexpected death of Ahn gave rise to a power struggle within Witnesses of Jesus Church of God : some people in the church wanted to continue along the lines laid out by Ahn, others wanted to re-introduced the concept of a'' spiritual mother'' embodied in the then 41 year old woman named Zahng Gil-jah (born 1943). |
John Stossel | Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity : Get Out the Shovel -- Why Everything You Know Is Wrong, which was published in 2007 by Hyperion, questions the validity of various conventional wisdom s, and argues that the belief he is conservative is untrue. |
D. James Kennedy | The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a press release in 2006 strongly criticizing Darwin's Deadly Legacy, a neo-creationist documentary produced by the Coral Ridge Ministries, which attempts to link evolution to Adolf Hitler : The ADL further denounced Kennedy as'' a leader among the distinct group of' Christian Supremacists' who seek to' reclaim America for Christ' and turn the U. S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law.'' |
Will S. Green | On June 1, 1865 he wrote,'' There could be such a thing as a Republic in this country without slavery, but there can never be such a thing as a Republic in America without the acknowledgement of States Rights.'' |
Robert Runcie | On 17 March 1982, Runcie gave a speech to the National Society for the Promotion of Christianity in which he said that Christianity should play a crucial part in the religious education of all pupils, even if they were non-Christian :'' While recognising that a truly pluralistic society should not merely tolerate diversity but value and nurture it, I must also express the fear that at times we seem tempted to sacrifice too much of our native Christian tradition on the altar of multi-culturalism''. |
Luke Barnett | In a 2009 interview Barnett stated,'' We give so much money to Africa and all these countries, which is amazing, but in our own country, we have kids dying every day from drug abuse and suicide. |
Tony Abbott | In 2010, when Abbott told the ABC's Q&A program that an Abbott-led government would not amend Australian law to recognise gay marriage, he said,'' I certainly want to see -- just a general principle. |
Kary Mullis | In his 1998 autobiography, Mullis expressed disagreement with the scientific evidence supporting climate change and ozone depletion, the evidence that HIV causes AIDS, and asserted his belief in astrology. |
Brigham Young | After settling in Utah in 1848, Brigham Young announced the ban, but also stated that they would eventually receive the priesthood after'' all the other children of Adam have the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and have received their resurrection from the dead, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.'' |
Ian Paisley | After the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, Paisley expressed sympathy for Catholics stating'' We can understand how Roman Catholics feel at the death of the Pope and we would want in no way to interfere with their expression of sorrow and grief at this time.'' |
Morris Chapman | Talking in February 2009 about the financial crisis in the USA, Chapman called for a spiritual awakening among Christians are willing'' to abandon all of self for all of Christ''. |
Frank Bruno | In December 2013, Bruno spoke to The Mirror newspaper in support of their mental health campaign, stating :'' Mental illness is a terrible thing to have to cope with but I've learnt it's a fight you can win if you live your life the right way''. |
Israel Zangwill | In 1921 Zangwill wrote'' If Lord Shaftesbury was literally inexact in describing Palestine as a country without a people, he was essentially correct, for there is no Arab people living in intimate fusion with the country, utilizing its resources and stamping it with a characteristic impress : there is at best an Arab encampment, the break-up of which would throw upon the Jews the actual manual labor of regeneration and prevent them from exploiting the fellah in, whose numbers and lower wages are moreover a considerable obstacle to the proposed immigration from Poland and other suffering centers''. |
Chris Woodhead | In an interview with The Sunday Times published on 3 May 2009, he stated publicly that he would prefer to end his own life than suffer the indignities of the final stages of the disease ; in an interview he stated,'' The truth is that I would be more likely to drive myself in a wheel-chair off a cliff in Cornwall than go to Dignitas and speak to a bearded social worker about my future.'' |
Kurt Koch | On 30 October 2012, Koch stated in an interview that, if Lutherans express a wish for an arrangement similar to the personal ordinariates for former Anglicans, the Catholic Church will have to reflect on it, but that the initiative must come from Lutherans. |
John Major | However, he also conceded that the issue'' fed the public belief that the Conservative (s)... had been in government too long, and had got into bad habits'' and quoted Labour's claim in 1997 :'' Nothing better encapsulates what people think of this government. |
Teimumu Kepa | Politics is something different and this is based on individual choice whereas the chiefly system require the support of the whole vanua and it should not be used for politics,'' Fiji Live quoted him as saying (3 April 2006). |
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia | He wrote to Tolstoy, with whom he had carried on a friendly correspondence, on 1 October 1905 :'' I suffer all the more from my silence because every one of the government's flaws is so blindingly clear to me and I see no remedy except in a radical change from everything that now exists. |
Jos? Rizal | His commentaries reiterate the following agenda : In his letter'' Manifesto to Certain Filipinos'' (Manila, 1896), he states : Reforms, if they are to bear fruit, must come from above ; for reforms that come from below are upheavals both violent and transitory. |
Shi Dakai | Hong then handed power to his two brothers and gradually undermined Shi's administration, to the point where Shi realized that he must either leave or risk the eruption of another civil war In 1857, Shi left the capital, writing a poem asking the people to have faith in the Taiping Kingdom, and the people who wish to follow him may do so. |
Kendell Geers | In 2011 Geers wrote a Manifesto in which through a series of statements, he explores the link between political and natural revolutions, mourns the loss of our talent for revolution and the underlying causes, and gives us clues on how to remember our inner selves to live a more true life. |
Thomas E. Watson | The masthead of Watson's newspaper in 1894 declared that it'' is now and will ever be a fearless advocate of the Jeffersonian Theory of Popular Government, and will oppose to the bitter end the Hamiltonian Doctrines of Class Rule, Moneyed Aristocracy, National Banks, High Tariffs, Standing Armies and formidable Navies -- all of which go together as a system of oppressing the people.'' |
Charles B. Rangel | In 2003, Rangel said a draft would make the military more representative of the American public at large, that'' the poor, black and brown should n't be the only Americans fighting and dying in Iraq'', and that'' Fairness dictates that the sons and daughters of the white middle and upper classes share the burden of war''. |
Debbie Stabenow | In 2009, Stabenow said, `` I have always said that a strong, national fuel-economy standard is what our country needs, not a confusing patch work of different state standards. |
Ken Blackwell | In 2005, he supported keeping Terri Schiavo on life support indefinitely, saying,'' I really do think that life is sacred, no matter how painful.'' |
Jawed Ludin | In an interview in 2003 he called his work for the Afghan government his'' reason for existence,'''' Somehow I am being useful in my own little corner. |
Charles Elliot | Elliot wrote to Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston in 1839 that he regarded the opium trade as a'' disgrace and sin... I have steadily discountenanced it by all the lawful means in my power, and at the total sacrifice of my private comfort in the society in which I have lived for some years past.'' |
Roger Ebert | Ebert later defended his position in April 2010, saying,'' No video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form''. |
Grace Paley | In a May 2007 interview with Vermont Woman newspaper -- one of her last -- Paley said of her dreams for her grandchildren :'' It would be a world without militarism and racism and greed -- and where women do n't have to fight for their place in the world.'' |
William Levada | Within 68 days, Levada publicly stated, in contrast to the conclusion he reached in 1970, that the Catholic Church's teaching regarding the immorality of directly-willed abortion had been infallibly taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium : The individual politician, like any Catholic, who is at odds with the teaching of the Church about the principle involved, i. e., that abortion constitutes the killing of innocent human life and is always gravely immoral (cf. Evangelium Vitae, nn. |
Mahatma Gandhi | During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a'' highly orthodox Hindu'' and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of noncooperation to Hindu Dharma,'' At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your' Hindu Dharma', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.'' |
Gamal al-Banna | In Ramadan 2006, e. g., he said that smoking was n't forbidden in Islam and that Muslims may even smoke in the daytime in Ramadan, i. e. during the fasting period. |
Ezra Levant | Levant saw'' youthquake'', the term he used to describe what he identified as a conservative youth movement of the 1990s, as similar to the 1960s civil rights movement except that instead of being enslaved by racism, his generation was'' enslaved by debt'' and, in order to liberate itself, society needed to dismantle elements such as trade union s, the minimum wage, universal health care, subsidized tuition and public pension plan s. In 2004 Levant co-founded the Western Standard, an Alberta - based magazine with an emphasis on Western Canada and political conservatism. |
John Gates | In the summer of 1948, Gates was one of 12'' kingpin Commies'' (to borrow a colorful contemporary turn of phrase from Time magazine) indicted under the Smith Act for being'' dedicated to the Marxist-Leninist principles of the overthrow and destruction of the Government... by force and violence.'' |
Andrew Sullivan | During the 2012 election campaign he wrote,'' Against a radical right, reckless, populist insurgency, Obama is the conservative option, dealing with emergent problems with pragmatic calm and modest innovation. |
Ian McKellen | In 2006, he became a patron of Oxford Pride, stating :'' I send my love to all members of Oxford Pride, their sponsors and supporters, of which I am proud to be one... Onlookers can be impressed by our confidence and determination to be ourselves and gay people, of whatever age, can be comforted by the occasion to take the first steps towards coming out and leaving the closet forever behind.'' |
Nikolay Baskakov | At the start of 1924 Baskakov was dismissed first from his pedagogical school, and then from Vologda pedagogical school, for participation in an anti-religious dispute where he advocated that God is good, and the Satan is evil, and that God always wins, and that people need religion. |
Louis Marshall | The Syracuse Post-Standard's editorial on Marshall, written upon his death, in 1929, pictures his motivation as :'' Always, it was justice... Justice to all who were in need of justice... justice to the people who, like himself, were of Jewish origin... His was an intense Americanism... He was a man who helped humanity... unafraid, a man whose hand was ready to lift a load... necessary for the lessening of misfortune or oppression, a worker in our common life who because he was a worker, became a leader, a man who crowded his years with service for the benefit of those about him - altogether an eminent American citizen whom a multitude will hold in grateful remembrance.'' |
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | Opening the exhibition of art by the Novecento Italiano group in 1923, he said :'' I declare that it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art. |
Anjem Choudary | Choudary referred to the 11 September terrorists as'' magnificent martyrs'', and in 2003 he appeared to endorse terrorist attacks by British Muslims, saying that al-Muhajiroun would'' encourage people to fulfil their Islamic duties and responsibilities''. |
Yahya Jammeh | In a speech to the United Nations on September 27, 2013, Jammeh said that'' -LSB- h -RSB- omosexuality in all its forms and manifestations which, though very evil, antihuman as well as anti-Allah, is being promoted as a human right by some powers,'' and that those who do so'' want to put an end to human existence.'' |
Jim Clough | He held staunch, socially conservative views, vehemently opposing the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1984, remarking :''... that there are people in the community that want to and can help them overcome their problem''. |
Grigol Orbeliani | In the 1860s, Orbeliani tried to stand aside from the quarrels between'' the sons and the fathers'', but he could not refrain from attacking the new generation in a caustic rhymed response published in 1874. |
Vicente Lim | - Brigadier General Vicente Lim, in a letter to his sons, 1939''... no matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.'' |
Marie Bonnevial | Speaking at the Congress of Women's Rights in 1900 Marie Bonnevial said that women were victims of a false education that made them hold as a virtue the principle that was opposed to all progress : resignation. |
Habib Jalib | Disappointed at the state of the nation, when asked if he felt any change after democracy, he said : : حال اب تک وہی ہیں فقیروں کے : دن پھرے ہیں فقط وزیروں کے : ہر بلاول ہے دیس کا مقروض : پاؤں ننگے ہیں بے نظیروں کے : Haal ab tak wahi hain faqiroan kay : Din phiray hain faqat waziroan kay : her Bilawal hai Dais ka maqrooz : paoon nangay hain Benazeeroan kay : The status of the poor is still the same : the days of the ministers have indeed changed : every Bilawal (name of the only son of Benazir Bhutto) of the country is under debt : while Benazirs (literally the poor) of the country walk without shoes Habib Jalib died on March 12, 1993. |
Nissim Ze'ev | In June 2007 he compared homosexuals to drug addicts and suggested that rehabiliation centers be set up for them throughout Israel, saying : :'' The government should initiate this ; these people are unfortunate and we must keep an eye on them to assist them... I am not speaking of a closed institution, but of a center that will accept anyone who walks through its doors... We must set up special teams of psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers who will help them return to a normal life, just like in a drug rehabilitation center.'' |
Martha Gellhorn | In 1972 she wrote : If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing ; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. |
Randi Weingarten | Writing on May 30, 2013, about efforts to get `` New York state's teachers unions to accept personal accountability as a bedrock principle of public-education reform,'' Bob McManus of the New York Post commented that Weingarten `` once seemed to have a conscience on such matters -- but no more,'' decorating her rhetoric `` with filigrees of reform,'' while adhering to the principle that `` No tenured teacher, under any circumstances, is to be held to account for any failing of any sort -- forever and ever, amen.'' |
John R. Park | The plaque lists biographical dates and statistics from Park's life and career, and then repeats the following quote from an 1885 speech he gave to future teacher s : I would have you remember that the best intellectual ability... will result in worse than failure, unless it has underlying it a stratum of moral culture... Always remember in your teaching that the grand purpose of your labors is to make citizens - active, thinking, intelligent, industrious and moral men and women. |
Richard St. Barbe Baker | David Hofman, a Canadian Bahá' í who served on the Universal House of Justice, said of St. Barbe Baker's acceptance of the Bahá' í Faith (shortly after 1924) :'' He always said that this was the beginning of his true life, and he realised that he derived so much benefit from these Bahá' í prayers that it was only fair that he should serve the Bahá' í Faith to the best of his ability.'' |
Paul Craig Roberts | In a 2011 interview, he said oligarchs are running these nations : The west prides itself that it is the standard for the world, that it is a democracy. |
Solomon Schechter | Schechter emphasized the centrality of Jewish law (Halakha) in Jewish life in a speech in his inaugural address as President of the JTSA in 1902 : :'' Judaism is not a religion which does not oppose itself to anything in particular. |
Mary of the Divine Heart | In his 1899 encyclical letter Annum Sacrum, Leo XIII decreed that the consecration of the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus should take place on June 11, 1899. |
John Brown (abolitionist) | In 1837, in response to the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy, Brown publicly vowed : `` Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery !'' |
Archibald Maule Ramsay | On 10 January 1939 the Hon. Mrs Ismay Ramsay gave another speech to the Arbroath Business Club, at which she claimed the national press was'' largely under Jewish control'', that'' an international group of Jews... were behind world revolution in every single country'' and that Hitler'' must... have had his reasons for what he did''. |
Antonio Baseotto | Among other things, in 1986 he affirmed that most of the Jewish community in Argentina'' devotes itself, with much skill and often with very few moral principles, to big business... It does not matter the means... If pornography is good business, -LSB- the Jew -RSB- sells pornography. |
Cherie Blair | In 2002, she apologised after saying within hours of a Jerusalem blast that killed at least 19 people in reference to the Palestinian suicide bomber s :'' As long as young people feel they have no hope but to blow themselves up, we're never going to make progress, are we ?'' |
U Thant | In an editorial published around December 27, 1971, praising U Thant, The New York Times stated that'' the wise counsel of this dedicated man of peace will still be needed after his retirement''. |
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine | In 1950 he published Return from Utopia, which stated his belief that trying to use the power of the state to create any sort of Utopia on earth is not just unattainable but positively evil because one of the first principles to be sacrificed is the principle of freedom and individual choice. |
Bruce R. McConkie | On June 1, 1978, McConkie was present in the Salt Lake Temple when a revelation was received by the First Presidency and the Twelve'' that the time had now come to extend the gospel and all its blessings and all its obligations, including the priesthood and the blessings of the house of the Lord, to those of every nation, culture and race, including the black race.'' |
Clive Derby-Lewis | In 1989 he claimed in Parliament that'' If AIDS stops Black population growth it will be like Father Christmas.'' |
George Mundelein | In 1935, he said'' that not war, nor famine, nor pestilence have brought so much suffering and pain to the human race, as have hasty, ill-advised marriage s, unions entered into without the knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. |
Pope Benedict XVI | On 22 December 2008, the Pope gave an end of year message to the Roman Curia in which he talked about gender and the important distinction between men and women. |
Trent Franks | In the past, Franks has picketed abortion clinics but has ceased to do so stating in a June 2013 interview that'' It became clear to me that I could be more effective by trying to do something to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.'' |
Debra Winger | She has shown her support for reconciliation between Arabs and Jews in Israel by visiting the bilingual Hand in Hand schools (Galilee Jewish-Arab School, Gesher al HaWadi School) where, in 2008, she stated she would'' dedicate the next bit of my life to these schools''. |
Archibald Maule Ramsay | In December 1938 The Fascist (journal of the Imperial Fascist League) declared that Ramsay had'' become Jew-wise'' (a term which indicated someone who had come to believe in a Jewish conspiracy). |
Otto Rank | He suffers... because he clings to -LSB- the past -RSB-, wants to cling to it, in order to protect himself from experience -LSB- Erlebnis -RSB-, the emotional surrender to the present'' (Rank, 1929 -- 31, p. 27). |
Otto Rank | The outbreak of neurosis typically comes from the streaming together of these two fears -- which Rank also calls the'' fear of living'' -LSB- Lebensangst -RSB- and the'' fear of dying'' -LSB- Todesangst -RSB- -- `` which, even in The Trauma of Birth, I had designated as the fear of both going forward and of going backward'' (Rank, 1929 -- 31, p. 124). |
Oliver Letwin | Speaking to consultancy firm KPMG, on 27 July 2011, Letwin caused controversy after stating you ca n't have'' innovation and excellence'' without'' real discipline and some fear on the part of the providers'' in the public sector. |
Paavo Nurmi | In 1962, Nurmi predicted that welfare countries would start to struggle in the distance events :'' The higher the standard of living in a country, the weaker the results often are in the events which call for work and trouble. |
Wolf Erlbruch | The moral of his own stories, Erlbruch suggested in 2003, is that people should regard themselves from a distance and accept even what is not so beautiful about themselves, what is special. |
William Warren Barbour | On October 14, 1943, barely a week after meeting with the rabbis, and despite strong public and political opinion against allowing further immigration to the United States, Barbour introduced a bill that would have permitted as many as 100,000 victims of the Holocaust'' who are now being persecuted either because of racial or religious belief'' to come to America and to remain in the United States as visitors for the duration of the war. |
Stephen Fry | In 2009, The Guardian published a letter from Fry addressing his younger self, explaining how his future is soon to unfold, reflecting on the positive progression towards gay acceptance and openness around him, and yet not everywhere, while warning on how'' the cruel, hypocritical and loveless hand of religion and absolutism has fallen on the world once more''. |
Mario Borghezio | In an interview published on 7 February 2006 on'' Corriere Della Sera'', Borghezio said :'' When I'm on stage at a political rally, I become a different person. |
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor | On 3 December 2006, Murphy-O'Connor issued a response to a statement made by Prime Minister Tony Blair on World AIDS Day (1 December 2006) in which Blair said,'' The danger is if we have a sort of blanket ban from religious hierarchy saying it's wrong to do it, then you discourage people from doing it in circumstances where they need to protect their lives.'' |
Malalai Joya | In 2006, the Washington Post said of Joya :'' Her truth is that warlords should not be permitted to hide behind'' the mask of democracy to hold on to their chairs'' and their pernicious pursuits at the expense of poor,'' barefoot'' Afghans who remain voiceless and disillusioned. |
Mirza Masroor Ahmad | On 12 September 2006, while Pope Benedict XVI was lecturing at the University of Regensburg, he quoted the opinion of Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos,'' Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached''. |
Bill Joy | In 2000 Joy gained notoriety with the publication of his article in Wired Magazine,'' Why the future does n't need us'', in which he declared, in what some have described as a'' neo-Luddite'' position, that he was convinced that growing advances in genetic engineering and nanotechnology would bring risks to humanity. |
Michael Nazir-Ali | In 2000, Nazir-Ali wrote, It is very important for the Church to continue saying that having children and their nurture is a basic good of marriage and not an optional extra. |
Tim Loughton | In May 2012, he said marriage was a religious institution that should remain between one man and one woman. |
Joseph Franklin Rutherford | He denied there was a role for Jews in God's Kingdom arrangement and by 1933 he had reversed Russell's earlier teaching, claiming that prominent Jewish business leaders were'' arrogant, self-important and extremely selfish,'' and would gain no favored standing with God. |
Wilfrid Worland | Explaining the appeal of the colonial style in 1980, Worland told The Washington Post,'' Many people move here from someplace else. |
Svetlana Broz | Since 2001 Dr. Broz heads the organization GARIWO (technically a subsidiary of the Italian non-profit body Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide) with its flagship program Education on Civil Courage (She defines civil courage as „ The will and ability to disobey, to resist, to oppose and to end by non-violent means the abuse of power by any public authorities, private enterprises or individuals who deliberately neglect their duties to society or illegally use the levers of their political, economic or social power to their own advantage -- whether in the media or in the academic, ecclesiastical or family spheres ``) designed to combat the prevailing ethnic intolerance, corruption, violence, or any type of discriminatory behavior, and to build a resilient civil society in the West Balkans by inspiring civil courage above all in the young and teaching the day-to-day skills of constructive opposition Svetlana is recognized (and correspondingly reviled and threatened) as an outstanding human rights advocate for all who are unfairly persecuted for their courage to witness against war criminals and war and post-war profiteers. |
Henry W. Grady | Grady stated in 1888 :'' the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever, and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards, because the white race is the superior race... -LSB- This declaration -RSB- shall run forever with the blood that feeds Anglo-Saxon hearts''. |
Ali Khamenei | On 21 March 2009, a day after US President Barack Obama claimed to offer Iran a'' new beginning'' of diplomatic engagement between the two old foes, Khamenei said a change of US'' words'' was not enough and added :'' We will watch and we will judge (the new US administration)... You change, our behavior will change.'' |
Carol Moseley Braun | In 1998, after George Will wrote a column reviewing the allegations of corruption against her, Moseley Braun responded to Will's comments, saying that'' I think because he could n't say nigger, he said corrupt,'' She also compared Will to a Ku Klux Klan sman, saying'' I mean this very sincerely from the bottom of my heart : He can take his hood and put it back on again, as far as I'm concerned.'' |
Paula White | On her television show in July 2005, White recounted the vision she received from God shortly after conversion :'' When I was just eighteen years old, the Lord gave me a vision that every time I opened my mouth and declared the Word of the Lord, there was a manifestation of his spirit where people were either healed, delivered, or saved. |
Samuel Mohilever | In 1897 Mohilever sent a message to the First Zionist Congress :' It is essential', he wrote,' that the Congress unite all'' Sons of Zion'' who are true to our cause to work in complete harmony and fraternity, even if there be among them differences of opinion regarding religion.' |
Peter Davies (politician) | Speaking in September 2009, Davies' conservative approach to family values was unequivocal as he spoke of his admiration for the `` ordered way of life under the Taliban.'' |