“Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.” ValuesSportsTeamProveMembersBaseballWestSports TeamBaseball TeamWest Point Author:Omar N. Bradley
“The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.” ThinkingTryingYearsLittlesLastsPastSuccessBitsDecisionResultsMiddleEventsMembersLittle BitToughWestEastFactorsMiddle EastCoastComing BackWest CoastTough Decisions Author:Luke Donald
“I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingI CanCountryCommunityCitiesStruggleMembersToolsWestLakesSaltUtahAmerican WestSalt Lake City Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.” IfsWorldSaidWarEndsStatesDemocracyMembersUnionsWestEastRuinsWar Of The WorldsContinentsStretchingEuropean UnionSecond World WarPortugalLiberal DemocracyEstonia Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.” KindWantedPartyMembersWestDoctrineFedsProgressiveCommunistCommitteesRestlessFed UpKgbProgressive Society Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.” LongHas BeensStatesFactsPoliticalSocialJusticeUnitedViewsPowerfulUnited StatesGroupsTheoryTypeMembersEmpowermentStandingClaimsStructureWestCriticalResistanceDespiteInequalityFormerElitesIncapableLatinoSocial StructureSocial InequalitySocial Theory Book:Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice Source: Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice