“Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.” PeopleStoriesCareLawPoliticalRightsCongressDon't CareGenuineDiscriminationCivil RightsBagsMaryJohnsonDisabledPunchingPunching Bag Author:William Greider
“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.” WorldEndsPhilosophyFactsRealityPoliticalPassionIntellectualUltimateErrorsConvictionDuesGenuineMeaninglessEroticParagraphExcludedIdentifyingUltimate Reality Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.” KindFactsHandsPoliticalSocialDifferencesRightsEqualPossessionGenuineEnormousVulnerabilityRelativeHand In HandSocial Equality Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.” MenMaySelfCountryShowsPoliticalOpportunitySocialJusticeClassShareDestructionSocial JusticeGenuineInitiativeCreedsHumiliationFulfilmentCastesDisintegrationEquality Of Opportunity Author:Syama Prasad Mukherjee
“The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.” EndsPoliticalProcessCitiesViolenceIncreaseAbsenceGenuinePursueReformRegimesResentmentJulySanctionsLegitimacyHamasErodePolitical ReformSenseless Violence Author:William Hague