Quotes of: National-identity Keyword

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

Jenny Shipley

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Madeleine Albright

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

Dennis Cardoza

The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

Foster Friess

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

David Wilkerson

For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the ‘black fire on white fire’ of His Law. Every utterance and every act of creation through which He revealed Himself was no...

God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name

There is, however, one way of speaking that I've tried to avoid. Rather than refer to someone as "a homosexual," I've taken care always to make "gay" or "homosexual" the adjective, and never the noun, in a longer phrase, such as "gay Christian" or "h...

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

Unlike old-fashioned Britain, where Tony Blair recruited Lord Levy to encourage his 'Friends of Israel' to donate their money to a party that was just about to launch a criminal war, in America Alan Greenspan provided his president with an astonishin...

The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war had threatened to split the nation into new feuding armies, and the inequities of industrial life had brutalized too m...

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century

the only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room [...] where we meet the first light of the dewy day, the first breath of the morning air, the first glance of gentle eyes; to which we descend in...

The Poetry Of Architecture: Or, The Architecture Of The Nations Of Europe Considered In Its Association With Natural Scenery And National Character

Joy is a decision. Circumstances and situations will scream distractions. Come what may, decide to be joyful in God and by the Holy Spirit you will be joyful.

Changing Your Identity

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Dhalgren

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Both of Me

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

The Human Script

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Jesus-Shock

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

Minaret