“Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.” CountryGirlBabyMonthsSixFemaleIndiaShameMinistersPrimeTraveledShockingPrime MinisterSix MonthsSystematicEliminationBaby GirlFetus Author:Elizabeth Vargas
“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.” IfsCountryGamesLosesProductsOughtDemandFairsShameTradeProducersSpineBackboneRiggedFair Trade Author:Byron Dorgan
“Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?” ShouldWarCountryHumanityCoursesPeaceJusticeFreedomLibertyTakenSecurityDependsGloryShameSafetyInjusticeCrueltyConsiderationResolution Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.” CountryAmericaPoliticalValuesNamesPartyPracticeInfluenceRepublicanShameOur CountryDivisionRepublican PartyTacticsSlanderReligion And Politics Author:John McCain
“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.” IfsWorldShouldHumansCountryStatesWould BeEarthHuman BeingsRaceDemocracyAliveExampleShameWaveCivilizedBurnedHumiliationLynching Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.” ThinkingBelieveCountryLevelsOpinionShameDon't BelieveOur CountryRudeBeing Rude Author:Benjamin Carson