“So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingImportantRealFactsPoliticalTermInformationCommunicateHungryDialogueDiscussionRhetoricProposalPolitical Rhetoric Author:John Podesta
“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.” FactsIndividualGroupsCryDrugDiseaseConceptsSuicideSalvationAddictionIllnessMental IllnessTherapyProtestRhetoricHomosexualityHomosexualAlcoholismDrug AddictionHereticDrug AddictPersecuted Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.” ReasonFactsSidesDealsImagineAtheismGardenImagine ThatRhetoricFundamentalismSprungContendingSprung Up Author:David Bentley