#legitimacy

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#cultivate #ethnicity #every #eyes #individuals

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#avoid #centrist #controversies #democrats #distance

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security. ↗

— Joe Biden

#accounts #cut #debate #how #legitimacy

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#black #complete #easier #elect #exists

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#composition #country #ethnic #feeling #granted

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#basic #beneficent #female #goddess #independent

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#certainly #i #kind #legitimacy #much

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#kind #legitimacy #preparations #war