“Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.” UseActionThreeLanguageRaceCrimeMessagesBlueProfoundStrikesSuitsSymbolsWelfareAffirmative ActionAffirmativeThree StrikesSending A Message Author:Jesse Jackson
“It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.” MenGivingChurchCrimeHolyMessagesGainsTerrorCommitCommunionReignDisgraceSanctuaryShamefulHoly CommunionReign Of Terror Author:Curtis Sliwa
“When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.” MenUsedSexCrimeMessagesWeaponsVictimAssaultProstitutionSexual AssaultCourtesans Author:Margo St. James
“I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.” ThinkingUseStyleCrimePolicyExampleSceneMessagesInstantAppropriateInternalsCopMonologuesNarratorsPersonal StyleAdverbs Author:Charles Stross
“Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.” KnowsHas BeensBookDifferentStatesDoneMightChallengesHurtViewsMoralCrimeMessagesVictimPhilosopherRevengeDefinedAnarchyUtopiaDeliveringPerpetrators Author:Errol Morris
“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.” PeopleNeedsStoriesMediaCrimeTelevisionMessagesNewsDestructionVictimDrinkingBarsConsumersStaringMy TimeFrightenedPollutionPassiveAirportsNews Stories Author:John Twelve Hawks