
— Judith Krug librarian and freedom of speech proponent 1940 - 2009
"A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)
The Daily Star (14 October 2006)
— Judith Krug librarian and freedom of speech proponent 1940 - 2009
"A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)
— Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
— Peter Singer, buch The Most Good You Can Do
Quelle: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015), Chapter 9: Altruism and Happiness (p. 103)
— David Lloyd George Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863 - 1945
Speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), quoted in The Times (11 October 1909), p. 6
Chancellor of the Exchequer
— Jim Gibbons American attorney, aviator, geologist, hydrologist and politician 1944
downplaying the effects of mercury emissions caused by humankind http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/08/thank_you_for_polluting.php?page=2On.
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
Kontext: That's what I believe, in part because that's what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation's future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted. I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us — we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
Also quoted in Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches (2003), edited by Kader Asmal & David Chidester. Jonathan Ball, p. 332
1990s, Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference (1992)
Kontext: Yes! We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! Those who dare to cast out from the human family people of a darker hue with their racism! Those who exclude from the sight of God's grace, people who profess another faith with their religious intolerance! Those who wish to keep their fellow countrymen away from God's bounty with forced removals! Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid.
— Luther Burbank American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
„Justice as fairness provides what we want.“
— John Rawls, buch A Theory of Justice
Quelle: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 30, pg. 190
— Cesar Chavez American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist 1927 - 1993
The Plan of Delano (1965)
— Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954
or the gambol
[199709292259.PAA10407@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
— Francis Escudero Filipino politician 1969
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
„We want to be a peace-loving element among the nations. We cannot repeat that often enough.“
— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945
Speech in Berlin (30 January 1936), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
1930s
— Scyld Berry English cricket journalist 1954
Preface to Wisden 2009, p. 7
— Marianne Williamson American writer 1952
Quelle: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §3 : Personal Power, p. 190 (p. 165 in some editions). This famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to Nelson Mandela. About the mis-attribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people."
Variant which appears in the film Coach Carter (2005): "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Variant which appears in the film Akeelah and the Bee (2006), displayed in a picture frame on the wall, attributing it to Mandela: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
Kontext: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.