“The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.” IfsYearsGovernmentEvilIndividualBreakRightsInformationProtectBuiltInstitutionsCampaignsCorporationsPrivacyValleysAmendmentsFourthGooglePledgePrivate SectorSiliconSilicon ValleyFourth Amendment Author:Al Franken
“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.” PeopleIfsMenWorldNeedsFirstsDoeEyePoliticalLiteratureNamesIndividualBreakReturnPerceptionElectionIdeologyRelyRulersExistentialTestimonyInterferenceThrough The EyesIsmsPredicaments Author:Gao Xingjian
“Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.” IndividualSocialSilenceBreakMovementWitnessSocial MovementsDemoralizingBearing Witness Author:Ellen Willis
“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.” LyingHumanityIndividualAbilityCommonMoralBreakCenturyRacismSolutionsOrdinaryAbsolutesCollectivesBlindnessImperativesBrillianceInevitabilityAbility To SeeCircularityUbiquity Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race
“God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.” WayChristianTogetherLawPoliticalIndividualGoalReligiousSinMoralChristianityBreakBandOrganizationAimCastsObstaclesBlockRemoveAgendasRighteousnessStumblingCordsUnchangeableStumbling BlocksCast Away Book:Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God