Not exact matches
Hurrah for Theodore Forstmann's impassioned and tightly reasoned plea for placing parents
in charge of education and for allowing the principles of
democratic capitalism to guide this
vital sector of our
society -LRB-» Putting Parents
in Charge,» August / September).
Researchers and leaders for social justice, then, seek to define the theories and practices of leadership that are
vital to creating greater freedom, opportunity, and justice for all citizens — citizens who, through public education, are better able to participate
in and sustain a free, civil, multicultural, and
democratic society.
More often than not, the light signifies no more than a turning or a twist or a light vent
in a tunnel, which for the vast majority of
societies in the West will seemingly never end
in the sunlight of a
vital, dynamic, and responsible system of free speech
in the legal domain, a system that responds to the needs of a
democratic society and also responds to the protection of certain other
vital interests of the individual
in a humane
society.
It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law
in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance
in the nature of public disorder; a law
in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law
in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the
vital rights and properties of a free and
democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law
in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression
in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law
in which the mores or standards of
society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens
in a free and
democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale
in a civil and civilised
society.
About Blog No Caption Needed is a book and a blog, each dedicated to discussion of the role that photojournalism and other visual practices play
in a
vital democratic society.