Sentences with phrase «speaks about democracy»

They spoke about democracy and urged the crowd to vote; they inveighed against party politics.

Not exact matches

I thought about how much Americans value democracy and having their voices heard, yet I was perplexed that so few people were speaking out.

That the companies whose spyware was used to target Mansoor are all owned and operated from democracies speaks volumes about the lack of accountability and effective regulation in the cross-border commercial spyware trade.

To a late 20th - century church that speaks about «economic democracy» and «solidarity with the poor,» these may seem like modest goals, morally speaking.

Properly speaking, a democratic constitution provides the one set of legal prescriptions that must be explicitly accepted by all citizens as participants in the political discourse, including discourse about whether the actual constitution is in fact democratic and, indeed, whether democracy itself is the proper form of the political association.

When W. E. B. Du Bois spoke in 1903 about embracing the «greater ideals of the American Republic» and the «spirit of the Declaration of Independence «11 he was only doing in the language of his day what Gordon and Cruse in our own time do when they espouse democracy and pluralism as fundamental to the American republic.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

In a whirlwind tour, the Nobel laureate who is democracy's champion in Poland, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, addressed a joint session of Congress, spoke to his fellow trade unionists in the AFL - CIO, went to New York to engage questions about Polish - Jewish relations, and there was complete silence from the paper that claims «to cover the news from the angle where church and world intersect.»

On April 3, he spoke powerfully on their behalf, but also about much larger themes, particularly his high expectations for America's democracy, and how it was falling short:

He speaks his mind about the current demise of our democracy.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Madison appeared angry and, when asked about Netsch «s comments about reorganization, snapped: «The wheels of democracy turn slowly.

Obama, who spoke to a crowd of approximately 18,000, according to the White House, also used the speech to issue a warning about the fragility of democracy.

Last year, Zalishchuk spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum about the challenges for civil society in her country.

«Frankly speaking, If Nigeria is a country where democracy is democracy, so many won't talk about contesting election.

Sure, the script gives us a speech from Post editor Ben Bradlee — played here by a rather trim Tom Hanks — about the importance of publishing, and speaking truth to power, as safeguards of democracy.

«Here's a story that talks about American history and the ideals of American democracy... in a vernacular that speaks to young people, written by a product of New York public education,» Rodin told the New York Times.

Another school founder observed that, generally speaking, «Our parents don't give a [hoot] about democracy walking in the door.

Meaningful Student Involvement is a logical way to educate students about the role of schools in democracy; the absence of these opportunities speaks well for the opposite.

Washington Post Journalist Wesley Lowery To Speak with Students about News and Democracy in the Digital Age

The «promise of democracy» that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about in his iconic «I Have a Dream» speech feels very distant today, but not just because of the controversial recent election, Daniel Evans Pritchard told a somber audience at a «counter-inauguration» hosted by a group that called itself Writers Resist.

Joining us is Senior Editor for Time Hong Kong, Liam Fitzpatrick, speaking about the Umbrella Movement and its importance to democracy in the city.

2008 Selective Knowledge, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens, Greece Zones of Conflict, Pratt Gallery, New York, NY Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, organized by Parsons School of Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, NY Crossroads: Interfaces between rock and contemporary art, Domus Artium Museum / Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Proyecto civico / Civic Project, CECUT, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, 8th Panama Biennial, Panama 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia Close Encounters, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. Freedom, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, Netherlands Ohio, curated by Brad Killam and Barb Wiesen, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Peripheral vision and collective body, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Since we last spoke about monuments, Stroom den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Museum.

In my 2007 book, Scorcher, which I was in Brisbane to speak about, I went into painful detail about the failings of the democratic process in Australia, but nowhere did I suggest a suspension of democracy.

She has not been shy about speaking up regarding the rule of law's critical importance to our democracy and how lawyers need to continue to play a strong role in promoting our democratic values.

So you have to wonder what exactly the social network hopes to accomplish by letting famous academics and its own employees speak out about Facebook and democracy.

At another conference in Czechoslovakia in 1990, shortly after the velvet revolution which restored capitalism and democracy to Czechoslovakia under the playwright leader Vaclav Havel, a Czech worker in a workshop asks a Western worker in English (the Western worker does not speak Czech) about individual treatment plans.