Diane Abbott (1953) British Labour Party politician
Diane Abbott to warn of British 'masculinity crisis' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22530184 BBC News (15 May 2013) <br class="br">2010s, 2013
The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)
Diane Abbott (1953) British Labour Party politician
Diane Abbott to warn of British 'masculinity crisis' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22530184 BBC News (15 May 2013) <br class="br">2010s, 2013
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
-Preface
The Way of Men (2012)
“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
Clifford Odets (1906–1963) Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor
Fritjof Capra book The Turning Point
Source: The Turning Point (1982), Ch. 1. The Turning of the Tide.
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
Introduction
The Culture of Cities (1938)
Context: Today our world faces a crisis: a crisis which, if its consequences are as grave as now seems, may not fully be resolved for another century. If the destructive forces in civilization gain ascendancy, our new urban culture will be stricken in every part. Our cities, blasted and deserted, will be cemeteries for the dead: cold lairs given over to less destructive beasts than man. But we may avert that fate: perhaps only in facing such a desperate challenge can the necessary creative forces be effectually welded together. Instead of clinging to the sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance, ours to march out to newly plowed fields, to create fresh patterns of political action, to alter for human purposes the perverse mechanisms or our economic regime, to conceive and to germinate fresh forms of human culture.
Instead of accepting the stale cult of death that the Fascists have erected, as the proper crown for the servility and brutality that are the pillars of their states, we must erect a cult of life: life in action, as the farmer or mechanic knows it: life in expression, as the artist knows it: life as the lover feels it and the parent practices it: life as it is known to men of good will who meditate in the cloister, experiment in the laboratory, or plan intelligently in the factory or the government office.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
The Way of Men is The Way of The Gang
The Way of Men (2012)
Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989) by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, Summer 1948
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Civil Rights Address
Context: This is not a sectional issue. Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. Nor is this a partisan issue. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. It is better to settle these matters in the courts than on the streets, and new laws are needed at every level, but law alone cannot make men see right. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.
Angela Merkel (1954) Chancellor of Germany
Merkel during a press conference on September 15, 2015 "Dan ist das nicht mein Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9BSD7anl6s,, September 15, 2015. <br class="br">Original: (de) Wenn wir uns jetzt noch entschuldigen müssen dafür, dass wir in Notsituationen ein freundliches Gesicht zeigen, dann ist das nicht mein Land.