“I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.” ActingSpeechUniversalClaimsRaisesPerformingValidityThesisVindicated Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.” CountryEnjoyKnownDoubtExpressionClaimsRegardRaisesWestWesternJewDenyMythBillionsHolocaustFreedom Of ExpressionSanctityMassacres Author:Ali Khamenei
“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.” WorldMindMadeNamesBlackWhiteRaceClaimsRaisesLabelsTake MeForeheadsInferiorityMustacheLynchingWhite RaceBlack Race Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down.” PeopleHardStatesLastsAmericaNamesSpeakWishUnitedCasesUnited StatesViolencePolicyClaimsRaisesIslamRulersMixturesCrusades Author:Edward Said
“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire” PeopleWorldWayNeedsSometimesDesireExpectationsUnderstoodClaimsRaises Author:Cinda Williams Chima
“However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!” IfsWorldWantKindMayLittlesHelpingFeelingsProblemPurposeVoiceAtheismJudgingDemandIntellectualClaimsRaisesAtheistContactPurpose Of LifeModestTestamentQualifiedNew TestamentCleanlinessBigotsShamelessLevityImpudence Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.” ChildrenShowsKidsParentQualityPositiveClaimsOur ChildrenRaisesConvinceStakes Book:Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World Source: Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World