Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
War on women – phrase used to describe certain Republican policies and legislation that restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights including abortion; We are the 99% – slogan coined and widely used during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street; the slogan refers to income and wealth inequality in the United States
Ideas also appeared in handbills and student papers that were passed out in and around the Square. [6] Ideas and slogans during the movement began as posters on campuses, and were later converted to leaflets and handbills. Big and small character posters became the main way to report news and express viewpoints on campuses. [7]
"In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts" – 1964 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Lyndon B. Johnson supporters, answering Goldwater's slogan "The Stakes Are Too High For You To Stay Home" - 1964 U.S. campaign slogan of Lyndon B. Johnson, as seen in The Daisy Ad [15] "LBJ for the USA" - 1964 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Lyndon B. Johnson
"My body / my choice" sign at a Stop Abortion Bans Rally in St Paul, Minnesota, May 2019 "My body / My choice" at Women's March San Francisco, January 2018. My body, my choice is a slogan describing freedom of choice on issues affecting the body and health, such as bodily autonomy, abortion and end-of-life care.
"Yes we can", used by Barack Obama as a slogan during the 2008 presidential campaign. Two years earlier, Obama's friend Deval Patrick had used the similar "Together We Can" in a successful campaign to become Governor of Massachusetts. "Thanks, Obama", Internet meme often used humorously to blame President Obama for any unfortunate occurrence.
The amendment proposed equal rights for women, and was first introduced to Congress in 1923, finally gaining Congressional approval in 1972. [5] Once Congress had approved the amendment, ratification by the states was requested and the typical 7-year time limit for ratification by two-thirds of the states was set in motion. [6]
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...
The "Just Say No" slogan was the creation of Robert Cox and David Cantor, advertising executives at the New York office of Needham, Harper & Steers/USA in the early 1980s. The firm was working with the Advertising Council on a media campaign for children, for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. [4]