Context: I don't think the issue's about being against gay marriage. It's about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that's important. You have to have a basic family structure. There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, it's one thing to say if people want to live a different way, that's their business. But when you want to redefine what family means or what marriage means, then that's an issue that should require some serious and significant debate in the public square.
James Kennedy (televangelist) (1930–2007) American evangelist
Kennedy Calls for Constitutional "Firewall" to Protect Marriage http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/News/news.aspx?story=1460 Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, November 19, 2003
“for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized”
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist
"New methods and new aims in teaching", in New Scientist, 22(392) (21 May 1964), pp.483-4.
Newton Lee American computer scientist
ACM Computers in Entertainment (Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2005)
“There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Context: There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric.
Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Address before the special constitutional convention of the United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan, January 22, 1958, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 214 This is our goal—a world of peace, freedom, and social justice for all people everywhere.
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
The God-Seeker (1949)
Context: He fretted that he did not know anything. He sighed, 'I have sought the Kingdom of God a little, the Squire has sought it terribly, but we haven't even a map, and after what I saw this afternoon, I know the Sioux are as barbarous as we are. Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? ~ Ch. 33
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Youtube, Other, Biblical Family Values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bldw8X5apnY (July 11, 2015)
Jerzy Vetulani (1936–2017) Polish scientist
Golinowska, Stanisława; Grodzicki, Tomasz; Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Renata (2013): Starość i starzenie się – trudne wyzwanie przyszłości. Alma Mater, 154, p. 19 (in Polish).
