Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

• Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

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  Safe, Action, Reputation

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• Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

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  Keys, Obesity, Contradictory

  "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.

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  Dulce, Primavera, Otoño

  "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

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  Waiting, Connections, Use

  "Dear President Obama, Qualified Women are Everywhere..." by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2008.

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• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

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  Doe, Wells

  "When Women Do Well, Everyone Does Better" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Las mujeres necesitamos vernos como individuos capaces de crear el cambio. En eso consiste el poder político y económico: en tener voz, en ser capaces de forjar el futuro. La ausencia de mujeres en los puestos de decisión ha privado al país de una perspectiva necesaria.

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  Country, Voice, Creating

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• Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

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  Heart, Democracy, Essentials

  "Words Have Consequences" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Vemos el mundo a través de la lente de todas nuestras experiencias; es una parte fundamental de la condición humana.

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  Lenses, Fundamentals, World

  "Gingrich and Limbaugh: Poor Privileged White Men Grappling with Sotomayor" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

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  Home, Voice, Coal

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

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  Issues, Fundamentals, Economic

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.

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  Pain, Disappointment, Optimistic

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• It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

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  Politician, Debris, Courses

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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

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  Generosity, Greed, Selfishness

  "E Pluribus Unum or Social Darwinism?" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

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  Art, Drawing, Expression

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• One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

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  Life, Action, Protection

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• Lo que algunos hombres no entienden es que, al oponerse a las políticas para reducir la violencia, promover la igualdad salarial y la sanidad universal y votar a favor de limitar el acceso a la anticoncepción y al aborto legal, están relegando a las mujeres a otro siglo, una época en la que los hombres gobernaban en exclusiva y las mujeres eran consideradas propiedad y debían ser guiadas por una firme mano masculina.

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  Men, Equal Pay, Hands

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• La agenda republicana es, y siempre ha sido, derogar Roe v. Wade y, como mínimo, erosionarla en la mayor medida posible.

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  Agendas, Wade, Erode

  "Women Decide" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

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  Experience, Life Experience, Denied

  "Gingrich and Limbaugh: Poor Privileged White Men Grappling with Sotomayor" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

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• If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

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  Agendas, Tables, Gains

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

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  Different, Safe, Violence

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• Las actividades de voluntariado pueden fomentar una enorme capacidad de liderazgo. El mundo del voluntariado profesional sin ánimo de lucro es un laboratorio para la autorrealización.

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  Skills, Self, Volunteer

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• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

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  Usual, Campaigns, Corporations

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

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  Political, Politics, Debate

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• A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

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  Two, Desire, Succeed

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• A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

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  Trabajos, Hombres, Años

  "Equal Pay for Women Translates Into a Bigger Paycheck for Families" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

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