That sort of bravery in the face of real danger — in his hometown, bodies are hung in the public square with signs labeling them «media activists» — is a powerful reminder of how
essential freedom of the press really is, and how easily it can be taken away.
Not exact matches
In his view: An open Internet is
essential for nurturing startups and
freedom of speech, the federal court left such prioritization open as a possibility.
But had Sony stuck to its guns and released the movie as planned, it would have made a strong statement about standing up for
freedom instead
of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who would give up
essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»
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How are systems that are absolutely
essential for maintaining democracy and
freedom — and which have been subject to attack attempts in recent years — not
of primary importance?
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In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less
essential and calls us to uphold principles
of intellectual
freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement
of our legal and regulatory standards.
I begrudgingly acknowledge that
freedom of religion is an
essential component
of liberty, but it must have checks & balances.
Secretary Clinton continued: «Religious
freedom is both an
essential element
of human dignity and
of secure, thriving societies.
On the other hand, one must welcome the true conquests
of the Enlightenment, human rights, and especially the
freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize these as being
essential elements for the authenticity
of religion. . . .
She called religious
freedom «a cherished constitutional value, a strategic national interest, and a foreign policy priority,» adding that it was an «
essential element
of human dignity and
of secure, thriving societies, statistically linked with economic development and democratic stability.»
They remembered food and other
essentials willingly shared («I remember the buckets
of fried chicken brought to
Freedom House by neighbors.
Like you I think the
freedom of exploring new ideas is
essential, however it doesn't mean that all ideas are equally liberating.
A culture
of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea
of academic
freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as
essential in university life.
The idolatrous «soteriology
of freedom» that he identifies in the works
of Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard is therefore, for Koyzis, an
essential component
of liberalism itself.
He also felt that debate over the famous Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom in 1785 formed the
essential background to the First Amendment, and that the Virginia Statute was consciously written to guarantee full participation in public life on equal terms by «the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel
of every denomination» (V: 85)
Religious liberty is plainly
essential for the endurance
of our free society and for the protection
of the rights and
freedoms of the many millions
of Americans who dissent from the caustic Gnosticism that increasingly dominates our culture.
And yet, American liberal democracy has nonetheless always made available the tools to nurture those
essential moral foundations
of freedom.
She saw that the concept
of a unifying, active center
of personality is
essential to the view that persons possess some
freedom to respond intentionally to their situation.
With regard to related matters, Barth preferred the term «constancy» to the traditional «immutability» because
of his key emphasis on God's
essential freedom but that finally amounts to a distinction without a real difference.
Today this teaching is rarely regarded as easy to defend coherently, and even more rarely does it have an
essential place in catechetical schemes, or in defences
of human dignity,
freedom and immortality.
The indeterminacy that science has found at the levels
of matter (uncertainty), life (chance mutations), and human existence (
freedom) are
essential cosmological ingredients if the autonomy
of the world is not to collapse into the being
of the Creator - God (in which case it would no longer be a world distinct unto itself).
The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support
of the dignity and right to life
of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation
of civil society, and religious liberty as an
essential component
of human
freedom.
It needs to be added that the cultivation
of a well - founded fear that the other side might prevail was
essential to maintaining popular resolve in the defense
of freedom.
There is no other world that God might have created, not because he is bound by necessity, but because he is infinitely free, and so nothing can hinder him from expressing his
essential and infinite goodness perfectly, in and through the
freedom of creatures created to be the fellows
of his eternal Son.
EPC requires all churches to hold to «
essential» tenets
of the Christian faith, but allows each congregation
freedom in forming opinions on «nonessential» matters, such as whether women can be elected as deacons and elders.
The eschaton
of radical
freedom for all is inevitable, the forces
of History will sweep toward their ultimate victory — and therefore it is
essential that every good citizen accept liberalism (communism) in his heart and promote it publicly, eagerly detecting and shaming bias (class interest) and intolerance (oppression).
Accordingly, black theology understands that a liberating answer to questions pertaining to the circumstance
of oppression and the struggle for
freedom is
essential to the Christian witness.
They embedded
freedom of speech in the First Amendment as one
of our
essential liberties: «Congress shall make no law... abridging the
freedom of speech.»
The
essential government propaganda industries, Newspeak and Doublespeak, exist to make syntactical and logical sense out
of three slogans that dominate the book and the world it describes: «WAR IS PEACE,» «
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,» «IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.»
Advocates
of the movement disagree about whether sex should be within a «committed relationship,» however defined, but are one in contending that what used to be called licentiousness must now be viewed as the
freedom essential to fulfillment.
It is
essential that those
of us whose roots are still within the Judeo Christian system
of ethics, who value
freedom, who strive for the just society, and who recognize the enormous productive potential
of market capitalism should be fertile in ideas in the coming battle for minds.
What is
essential is not
freedom from neurotic conflicts, but a core
of inner strength «upon or against which the pupil may begin to build his own firm attitudes.»
Pantheism also neglects the mutual
freedom of man and God, the
freedom of the created «to turn away from its
essential unity with its creative ground».27
The
essential point is that any theological perspective must take account
of the role
of freedom in the shaping
of human destiny.
If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that
essential way - station on the way to
freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control
of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance
of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform
of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit
of national interest; (c) Extension
of the system through the creation
of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation
of the system through increases in the power
of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition
of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»
All these
freedoms are
essential and closely interrelated in Sen's comprehensive understanding
of development, which he labels a «capability approach.»
The integration
of the spiritual and the material becomes
essential for oppressed persons to attain a true sense
of freedom.
The requirement
essential to indetermination is that all responses to life situations «be inspired by past experience» (MM 69) and that they be made in the light
of previous, analogous states.3 If
freedom is not to be confounded with caprice, then indetermination requires the preservation
of the past in the two fundamental forms
of motor mechanisms and independent recollections.
The unity
of order and
freedom is
essential to the growth
of the real good, for this good is the growing community
of personal understanding, and mutual interdependence among people.
Negation is here an
essential objectification and hence distancing
of oneself from prevailing cultural and intrapsychic images and preunderstandings, and consequently a dialectical moment
of necessary alienation on the way to
freedom and truth.
The balance
of analogy between finite and infinite is delicate, yet
essential for sanity as well as
freedom.
As we have been led to expect, he denies that even man's intimate and ultimate relationship to God could ever rob man
of his
essential freedom and independence.
In a desire to permit his listeners that
freedom of choice which is
essential for the birth and exercise
of faith, he may become guilty
of equivocation It may be with the minister as with the student who, unable to remember whether a word is spelled with ie or ei, forms both letters the same, places the dot between them, and leaves the instructor the
freedom of choice!
Third,
essential to a research university is the protection
of academic
freedom.
And to match the event, it is accompanied by its justification in the expressed wills
of certain men who declare it
essential for the good
of France, for the cause
of freedom,
of equality.
Incoherence and coherence are here clearly distinguished in concept from the contradictoriness or
freedom from it which belong to logical inconsistency and consistency, even though an
essential relationship
of mutual conditionality governs both senses.
In any event, I find that I have begun the decade
of the «80s still firmly committed to the same
essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for
freedom and to the claims
of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility
of the church's witness when judged in terms
of changing human experience as for the appropriateness
of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.
It should be something legislatures can not turn on or shut off at will, something that is anchored in the
essential right
of freedom of association protected by the First Amendment.
Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two
essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born
of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the
freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.