“The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.” KnowsHumansMovingChoicesPathRightsDoorsHuman RightsDiscussionPuritySatisfyingEngagementRegimesStatus QuoDiplomacyPromotionSanctionsCondemnationIndignationNew PathsOutreach Author:Barack Obama
“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.” MovingSituationTelevisionPerformancesCurrentsTheatreIronyDiscussionDiscourseExaminationReplicateLive PerformanceCurrent SituationReplicationLive Theatre Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture
“There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.” LittlesCountryFactsMovingFormWealthClassMiddleIncrediblesIncomeInequalityDiscussionMiddle ClassCollapseIncome InequalityWealth Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders