“I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.” PeopleThinkingSelfCountryJobsChoicesIndividualRightsMilitaryGayMarriedArmyOur CountryRadicalAcknowledgeRevolutionaryAgendasPlatformsAdoptedBehalfTransgenderQualificationsOur ChoicesAdvocatingBisexualJoining The Army Author:Barney Frank
“The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the exception, with no taboos, no a priori norms (‘human rights,’ ‘democracy’), respect for which would prevent us from ‘resignifying’ terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of sacrifice … if this radical choice is decried by some bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!” IfsHumansHeartPoliticalSpiritChoicesDemocracyRightsImpossibleSacrificeExerciseAssumingHuman RightsTerrorRadicalExceptionRealisticNormRuthlessTabooBleedingUniversalityBleeding Heart Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.” WellsRunningTechnologyIssuesRightsClaimsPropertyLibertarianExperimentsCivil RightsRadicalVotingRight To VoteEmulationDraconian Book:Accelerando Source: Accelerando
“When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.” PeopleUseNamesTermRightsExamplePoliceUnionsWorkersOilStrikesLocalsRadicalMinoritiesCapitalistPigsAdoptedMonopolyHippieCrackedReferringConstitutional RightsStrikersBeing Adopted Author:Bobby Seale
“The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.” PeopleGovernmentJobsRightsConstitutionRadicalDocumentsReins Author:William J. Clinton
“It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.” WorldCultureIssuesRightsFeminismIntegrityCommitmentAskingChosenCivil RightsRadicalCategoriesHonoredPreference Author:Adrienne Rich
“We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.” PeopleWarWinningFeltForgetIssuesRightsFiguresKingsUnionsWorkersRadicalRisingPrizeCommunistVietnamDrsVietnam WarNobelUnifyingNobel Peace PrizeProminence Author:Barack Obama
“We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed, he gives a speech after the San Bernardino attack where his approach is to try to go after the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens rather than to keep us safe.” GivingTryingLawNamesSpeakPresidentRightsCitizensSafeSpeechApproachTerrorismRadicalBarackEngagedIslamicAbidingPresident Barack ObamaConstitutional RightsIslamic TerrorismLaw Abiding Citizen Author:Ted Cruz
“We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to topple [Bashar] Assad. Assad is a bad man. Gadhafi was a bad man. Mubarak had a terrible human rights record. But they were assisting us - at least [Muammar] Gadhafi and [Hosni] Mubarak - in fighting radical Islamic terrorists.” MenWantNeedsHumansFightingLeaderRecordsRightsTerribleRepublicanClintonHuman RightsTerroristRadicalBarackIslamicBad ManAssadAssistingMubarak Author:Ted Cruz
“Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.” PeopleDreamSituationBreakRightsBecomingCitizensOne DayEqualCreatingIllusionImprovementRadicalEmpoweringEqual Rights Author:Pankaj Mishra
“First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there; Black Panthers spoke at the church; it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.” FirstsSaidWarBlackChurchRightsGayMassCivil RightsRadicalSpokesPriestsAnti WarCeremonySanctuaryPanthersBlack Panther Author:Ian MacKaye