“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.” PeopleWorldWritingHardAgeLyingHumanityNextAsksSexRaceOpinionAliveDoorsGroupsUniversalSafetyBraveGenderImmenseOutsidersValidityAffiliationCateringPersonal Opinions Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.” WaySelfGirlSocialBitsTechnologyDoorsGroupsMediaCallingCamerasProductionsSocial MediaFilmmakerDigitalPrintAllowingSparksFewerDistributionSummitAlterationsPhotoshopDigital CamerasLeading The WayGirl GroupsPrint Media Author:Sharon Lawrence
“The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight against foreign nations, against people we don't like, against political groups, radicals, and extremists whose ideas we may not agree with, and could be repulsive or even violent - if we let that happen without public buy-in, we won't have any seat at the table of government to decide whether or not it's appropriate for these officials to drag us into some kind of war activity that we don't want, but we weren't aware of at the time.” PeopleIfsWantKindMayIdeasWarRealityGovernmentHappensPoliticalNationsBehindsDoorsGroupsActivityAgreeTablesViolentRadicalOfficialsSeatsAppropriateDragOffensiveExtremistClosed DoorsOversightBehind Closed DoorsPolitical Groups Author:Edward Snowden
“There are a lot of doors that still get shut, and there are a lot of walls to still breach. But, the stuff that does come across to me, or that I hear about or read about, that I'm willing to go out there and fight for, I still have to go audition. I do have a certain leeway to choose, from that group, what I want to say, as an artist.” WantDoeStillsArtistCertainFightingStuffDoorsGroupsWillingWallAuditionsBreach Author:Jimmy Smits
“The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.” MayGovernmentIndividualBeliefReligiousJusticeViewsDoorsGroupsExerciseAuthorityRegulationAffirmationReligious BeliefClausesGovernment RegulationAbhorrent Author:William J. Brennan
“Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.” GenerationsDoorsGroups Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.” HumansCommunityHuman BeingsResponsibilityDoorsGroupsNeighborLocalsLocal Community Author:Rashida Jones
“Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.” PeopleIfsPersonsNextPerfectDoorsGroupsNormalConcernedFairsMoved Author:Nigel Farage