“Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.” PeopleLawForceJusticeViolenceAcceptanceExpressionOrganizationClaimsStructureDemocraticBonesWideToleranceAlternativesOppositionSchemesProceduresDissentDemocratic SocietyLatitude Author:Abe Fortas
“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldMindSelfProblemFormChoicesSpeakAnswersPowerfulExpressionPrideLimitsTestsAlternativesMost PowerfulRealisticCensorshipScholarRealismMultipleConfinedRespectableFreedom Of ExpressionAmerican SocietyMultiple ChoiceSelf Censorship Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.” AgeValuesFoundNumbersExpressionWesternVariousAlternativesFascismMarxismLegionAmerican ValuesEnamored Author:Dennis Prager
“I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent alternative to the idea that mutations take place in individuals, not communities, so that whatever rewiring of the brain yielded the apparently unique properties of language, specifically recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions, would therefore have taken place in an individual, and only later been used among individuals who had inherited this capacity.” ThinkingIdeasUsedIndividualLanguageCommunityBrainTakenGenerationsExpressionUniqueCapacityPropertyAlternativesInstantMutation Author:Noam Chomsky
“If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.” IfsHas BeensSeemsIndividualBrainGenerationsGroupsExpressionAlternativesPhenomenonInteraction Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured expressions was in effect instantaneous. I have never heard of an alternative to this suggestion.” LanguageBrainHeardEffectsExpressionInfiniteAlternativesSuggestionsEnablingEmergenceInstantaneous Author:Noam Chomsky
“Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.” PeopleIdeasSelfFashionExpressionCreatingBoundariesAlternativesCostumes Author:Reese Witherspoon