Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S. O. B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.
All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice. . . . I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.
Keep your eye on the main event.
A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.
Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square. " But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.
I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.