Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.
The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.
We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.
If such a young nation as the U. S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
Celestial criteria measures service, not status.
Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.
You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.
If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
It's the first thing liberals notice about people is what group are you in! "What group do I put you in? Are you a woman? Are you lesbian? Are you straight? Are you Native American? Are you African-American? Are you a mix? What are you?" That's how they see people, because that then identifies the victim status they hold. Victims of what? Victims of America! All these people are victims of America, "the white, patriarchal majority. " They're all victims of America, as the left sees them.
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.