group succeeds, another will suffer and it promotes fear. the fact that we’re even having these conversations makes a lot of people nervous. when i travel and do live talks, i meet people who say they’ve never met a trans woman before or were afraid of them. what scares people is ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Why Willy Won't Suffer in Silence; Man Who Lost UDR Father as Teenager Pledges Fight for Justice" by Oldham, Jeanette - The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), September 21, 1998...
We're able to question our own motives and consider the consequences of the things we do. While we may all have the capacity to be violent, we may only exercise violence under certain circumstances. It's not hard to imagine two scenarios featuring the same group of people that result in ...
Fighting for what you believe in can have a real impact “The whole point is to join together in this cause and not be against each other. Only then will we find justice.”― Cecibel Contreras When you battle for a noble cause and witness people’s lives changing for the better, it ca...
Change was not guaranteed to happen today or tomorrow unless people fought for it. And people must fight for it because “justice delayed was justice denied”. King’s view of time and struggle follows in the tradition of other activists, such as the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who ...
So what in justice's name am I owed? An apology? An explanation? A front-row seat to their torture chamber? Maybe - not the last part - but maybe you are owed those things in general. Nine times out of ten, if you ask for those things, you will get them. Which is wh...
Chamberlain delivered “Why we Fight” in the year 1836 to 120 war weary mutineers longing to return home; however, they were desperately needed to fight in Gettysburg. Chamberlain addressed his speech to motivate the men to continue fighting for justice. Chamberlain uses pathos by addressing the...
violent methods of protest and engagement. The normalisation of violence, even when justified, risks perpetuating cycles of harm and undermining the very principles of justice and equity that movements seek to uphold. I hope that creating a better understanding of students’ justifications for violence...
Donna Ongsiako: Oh, no. Never.Donna worked for a company that brokered fuel for ships on the nearby Jersey shore. She and her daughter Kiersten lived in a farmhouse on the edge of flower fields.Kiersten Ongsiako: She was 20 when she had me. So, we're only 20 years and one day ...
But she cautioned it would be an excruciatingly long road to justice. “It is time consuming. It will take years before there will be a conviction at the International Criminal Court. The waiting is really difficult for the victims and the families of the victims of the bloody war on drugs...