Quotes by Identity The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith. Samuel Ruiz western-cultureunderstandingidentity People have multiple identities. Samuel P. Huntington multipleidentitypeople A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson carpe-diemidentitymen Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. Sara Maitland well-beingimportantidentity I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, supporting Palestinians. I've never understood it, until I spoke once to a man named Norman Podhoretz, and he said to me, "Many of you refer to liberal Jews that way. They're not Jews. They are liberals. Liberalism is what is first and foremost in their identity. The fact that they are Jews is not paramount or prominent. It's secondary - and, in many cases, even tertiary - to their identity." Rush Limbaugh israelidentitymen Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old. Sara Zarr crisisidentityyears History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. Sarah Churchwell identitymistakefacts If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. Sarah Schulman epidemicsidentitypeople It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role. Scarlett Alice Johnson easierrolesidentity The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society. Saul Alinsky capitalist-economymovementidentity I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again. Scott Turow hard-timesidentitybook For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective. Sergio Chejfec perspectiveidentitylong I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be. Seth Gordon who-i-amidentitystories A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family. Shari Sebbens aboriginalpersonsidentity India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India. Shashi Tharoor who-i-amidentitymind It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it. Shelby Steele fightingidentityopportunity Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero. Shirley Geok-lin Lim might-useidentitythinking I can't give up my own identity. Shirley MacLaine my-owngiving-upidentity Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love. Shulamith Firestone love-lifeidentitymen We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host of possible 'incarnations' to be lived in a lifetime. Sidney Jourard identitybelievepeople«4647484950515253545556»
