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What is permissible is not always honorable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honorable
Always
Permissible
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
Michelle Alexander
Justice
People
Criminal
Our
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Criminals
System
Rather
Rely
Color
Longer
Exclusion
Supposedly
Contempt
Practices
Permissible
Label
Left
Discrimination
Than
Behind
Justification
Race
Social
Explicitly
Then
Engage
Use
Socially
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.
Peter Singer
Life
Worth
Parents
Miserable
Doctors
Living
Babies
State
Say
Worth Living
About
Give
Consultation
Disabled
Never
Taken
Permissible
Decisions
Then
Should
Lethal
Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.
Paul Polman
Future
Permissible
Equitable
Models
Sustainable
Based
Growth
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
Eric Liu
Out
Judges
Robots
Permissible
Cameras
Traffic
Umpires
Fixed
Turns
Monitoring
Humans
Zone
In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.
David Viscott
Relationship
Together
People
Living
Other
Relationships
Between
Supposed
Equals
Permissible
May
Who
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
Pawan Kalyan
Me
Situation
Believe
Respond
Some
Non-Violence
Permissible
Conscience
Necessarily
Violence
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
Robert Fisk
Death
War
You
Humanity
Crime
Awesome
Say
States
Scale
Has-Been
More
Points
Look
Course
Around
Permissible
Been
Than
Against
Straight
Declaring
Who
Bin
United
Compass
United States
Recently
The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.
Bill Flores
Approach
Policies
Documents
Permissible
Verifying
Provides
Update
Screening
Commonsense
Act
Transportation
When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.
Pramila Jayapal
Culture
Women
Behavior
Job
Power
Says
Sexes
Sexual
Both
Part
Bought
Enable
Permissible
Women Are
Just
Harassment
Expression
Assistants
Desirable
The country of the Two Holy Places has in our religion a peculiarity of its own over the other Muslim countries. In our religion, it is not permissible for any non-Muslim to stay in our country. Therefore, even though American civilians are not targeted in our plan, they must leave.
Osama bin Laden
Religion
Country
Own
Other
Our
Though
Muslim
Must
Stay
Civilians
Countries
Over
Permissible
Leave
Targeted
American
Any
Places
Plan
Holy
Therefore
Even
Two