“It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.” IfsHumansWould BeLawSpeakJusticeRightsPositionMembersInternationalCongressHuman RightsIsraelDefenseBalancedPalestinianPalestineSuicidalInternational Law Author:Jimmy Carter
“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.” PeopleWorldFeelsWellsMayHomeCertainKnownPositionHabitFitComfortTasteMembersCapacityTraditionDefenseExpectedCoreConsistentStereotypeWell KnownAdapted Author:Walter Lippmann
“When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.” PainChallengesDifferencesDealsGroupsSharePositionMembersAspectOutsidersSocial Change Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The Catholic Church may espouse its opinion on abortion to the members of its congregation. But they are in violation of separation of church and state when they try to proselytize their abortion politics on people who are not Catholics.” PeopleTryingMayStatesBeliefChurchOpinionPositionMembersCatholicSeparationAbortionViolationChurch And StateCatholic ChurchSeparation Of Church And StateCongregationNo RespectFreedom Of ReligionRight To LifePersonal Beliefs Author:John Irving
“'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.” TwoPositionDrugMembersPsychedelic Author:Terence McKenna
“Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.” YearsFactsProblemBigsEarthYoungUniverseSidesExistenceOne ThingPositionMembersScientistAgreeFoundationDareCreatorBillionsDebateBoth SidesBangsAssertionTranscendentCosmologyAtheisticJeopardy Author:Hugh Ross
“I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.” GivingShouldWellsI CanSchoolFoundTeacherFiguresPositionMembersInterviewsContributionStringsComposerCommitteesSurveillanceMusic BusinessTransmitPosition Of PowerYardsticks Author:Mauricio Kagel
“We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position.” KnowsNeedsShouldImportantSchoolChristianStrongPositionSourceMembersGuidesBoardsGodlySchool BoardBoard Members Author:Robert Simonds
“We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it a big story. The goal for Aquaman was to position him as an A-list character; position him as an important member of the Justice League.” ImportantCharacterStoriesShowsBigsWantedGoalJusticePositionMembersListsLeagueAtlantisJustice League Author:Geoff Johns
“Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him.” KnowsTryingSometimesWonderPositionMembersMajorityLocksParliamentMembers Of Parliament Author:Tony Burke
“How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me to stop her"? It seems like they're giving themselves a really tough position to occupy here, be they governors, senators, congressional members of the House of Representatives. They want to stop Hillary but not enough to keep her out of the White House. "So she'll get in there, but you need to elect us to put the brakes on her."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingEnoughHandsSeemsHouseWhitePositionObjectsMembersToughClintonWhite HouseGovernorsRepresentativesSenatorsBrakeHouse Of Representatives Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.” LongNationsBlackBreakClearPositionPerspectiveMembersIslamNotionNationalismSexismPatriarchyFrameworkWomen LeadershipNation Of IslamBlack Nationalism Author:Manning Marable
“Hillary Clinton knows, as I did know, as my women members know - that a woman being elected to a position, it's not about what it means to that woman. It's not about what it means to Hillary to be the first president. It's about what it means to all of the women in America, that a woman has broken the ultimate marble ceiling and that anything is possible for them and their daughters - and their sons. It's about sons, too.” KnowsFirstsMeanAmericaPresidentPositionSonBrokenMembersDaughterUltimateClintonCeilingsMarbleAnything Is Possible Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantStatesNationsCan DoUnitedFivePositionNeededMembersOrganizationRefuseReformPermanentFrankSecretaryUnited NationsVeto Author:Bashar al-Assad
“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.” IfsKnowsNeedsMindPersonsHas BeensCountryCultureLiteratureLostPositionProductsMembersRelationMirrorsLuxuryMapsTerritoryGeographyLost Person Author:Margaret Atwood