“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.” CertainLanguageOpinionRightsGroupsIdentityNotionSaltRejectedExclusiveEnglish LanguageQuaint Author:Ilana Mercer
“Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.” HumansFactsBodyDesireIndividualDealsRightsIdentityParticularDevelopmentAspectDignityUniversalHuman RightsIntimateAspirationDependentEquationsHuman DignityIndivisibleReproductive Health Author:Babatunde Osotimehin
“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.” ArtIdeasBlackTalkingRolesRightsIdentityRevolutionElementsProductionsResistanceCivil RightsAggressiveAffirmationRefusalAssertionSuccessorsJamaicaBlack Art Author:Mark McMorris
“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” IfsPersonsStatesStoriesCertainUnitedLibertyOpinionUnited StatesRightsIdentityPromiseVoteConstitutionPaidCourtFortuneSupremeRealmsReasoningBagsAphorismMysticalSupreme CourtFifthCookiesGay MarriageDissentMeltingFortune CookieSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeCourt Decision Author:Antonin Scalia
“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.” PersonsCertainLibertyRightsIdentityPromiseConstitutionCourtRealmsGay MarriageDissentMeltingSupreme Court JusticeCourt Decision Author:Anthony Kennedy