Public Discourse Quotes
Public Discourse Quote of the day
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.