“The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.” PeopleCountryPastPurposeNationsForgetPowerfulBuildingMessagesOur CountryChordsReconciliationRetributionNation BuildingAmnestyForget The Past Author:Nelson Mandela
“The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."” IfsWayWantLongHomeChristianAmericaJesusNationsAcceptingAtheismEffectsPrayingCitizensEqualMessagesAgreePositive AtheismWelcomeAdministrationMinoritiesSaviorGuestsTentsChristian Nation Author:Alan Dershowitz
“I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.” WorldWantNationsSexHugeBabyMessagesSingingHotPressesHealGlobesTreatiesGoodwillAmbassadorsWeirdoBatteredTubsHeal The WorldHot Tub Author:Michael Jackson
“Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, 'If you don't have a job, if you're not rich, don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the banks, blame yourself.' And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, 'Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.'” IfsSaidJobsNationsWaitingRichStreetsMinutesWallMessagesYeahBlameHeyCain Author:Bill Maher
“The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.” TwoNightNationsSidesPresidentRoomsSeriousMessagesStandingInstitutionsCongressDividedLaw EnforcementClappingUnbecoming Author:Mark Udall
“The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.” KnowsMayJoyNationsClearSkyMessagesShadowFoundationUncertaintyGood TimesDividesBrotherhoodChristmas MessageChristmas TimeClear Skies Author:Ferdinand Marcos
“While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.” StillsNationsMessagesSpreadSavingQueensOfficersProvidenceEthiopia Book:Eusebius: The Church History Source: Eusebius: The Church History
“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.” WholeNationsSpaceEmotionAttitudeEconomyMessagesStandardsDefinitionsRageRangeIndifferenceCollectivesExposedSubconsciousTwistedPassivityDouble StandardBillboardsSubversionRange Of Emotions Author:Slavenka Drakulic
“The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.” IfsLooksSeemsTodayTogetherHeavenNationsChurchStyleMessagesAppealsTribesDemographicsChurch Today Author:Keith Getty
“An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.” DreamNationsYouthMessagesPeacefulProsperousSri LankaDeveloped Nations Author:Abdul Kalam
“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.” WayNationsCourageIssuesDisciplineMessagesResourcesDeterminationWorthyGravesPersistenceOrganizedPakistanGrimSystematicGreat NationsQuaidQuaid AzamHope Courage Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.” FightingForceNationsWalksBecomingFitMessagesInternationalAggressionGoodwillWalks Of LifeMilitarismPhysical StrengthAmity Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.” PeopleAbleCertainNationsUnderstandingMessagesCapture Author:Steve Inskeep
“The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.” WayKindEndsTogetherFilmUsedNationsSidesWealthAnswersBloodGoes OnBirthMessagesShadowPrisonDebtOilInstanceExplorationDocumentariesWovenSpillsTomatoesSensuousPaybackFeudsOil SpillUnderpaidAlbanianPrison SystemShadow Side Author:Margaret Atwood
“Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWorldNeedsHumansWellsSelfEnoughPlayWholeEvilNationsDealsEffortRaceOpinionVirtueCryMessagesCorruptionCornersChosenThemeManifestMonopolyDuplicityPositive Messages Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live