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  2. I Rise (song) - Wikipedia

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    Madonna stated that she wrote "I Rise" as a way of giving a voice to marginalized people who felt they did not have an opportunity to speak their minds, and that she hoped that it would encourage "all individuals to be who they are, to speak their minds and to love themselves". [4]

  3. Aphra Behn - Wikipedia

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    Aphra Behn (/ ˈ æ f r ə b ɛ n /; [a] bapt. 14 December 1640 [1] [2] – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.

  4. Dixie Chicks comments on George W. Bush - Wikipedia

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    He said it was insulting to those who had died in wars "when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for simply voicing an opinion". [21] [22] Bush in Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, in 2007. On April 24, Bush responded to the controversy in an interview with the broadcaster Tom Brokaw: [23] The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind.

  5. God complex - Wikipedia

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    A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. [1] The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct. [2]

  6. Linguistic discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Their way of speaking the language is considered the higher class, emphasizing the idea that how one speaks a language is related to social, economic, and political status. [ 10 ] As sociolinguistics evolved, scholars began to recognize the need for a more nuanced framework to analyze the complex interactions between language and social identity.

  7. Robert F. Kennedy's speech at Ball State University - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy noted, "He's perfectly entitled to disagree with me and that's the only way were going to make progress in this country-if people stand up and speak their minds." [ 2 ] Kennedy discussed a potential tax credit program that would encourage businesses to invest in areas suffering from high unemployment. [ 3 ]

  8. Qasim Amin - Wikipedia

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    The niqab, Amin said, made it impossible to identify women. To him, when they walked with their niqab and long dresses, it made them more noticeable to men and more distrusted. Furthermore, he exclaimed that men in the West treated women with more dignity allowing them to go to school, walk without a veil, and speak their mind.

  9. Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency - Wikipedia

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    With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'