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# August Wilson

August Wilson (April 27, 1945–October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.

## Quotes

* I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness. A novelist writes a novel and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
** On what attracted him to theater in “August Wilson, The Art of Theater No. 14” in The Paris Review (Winter 1999)
* Jazz in itself is not struggling…That is, the music itself is not struggling. It and the baseball history you talk about are two anchors of the African American cultural community. It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
** On not tossing certain facets of African American culture as relics in “AN INTERVIEW WITH AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT AUGUST WILSON” (John C. Tibbetts, 2002)
* The real struggle has been since Africans first set foot on the continent, an affirmation of the value of one’s self. And I think if, in order to participate in American society, in order to accomplish some of the things which the black middle class has accomplished, if you have had to give up that self in order to accomplish that, then you are not making an affirmation of the value of the African being. You are saying that in order to do that I must become someone else, I must become like someone else…
** On the cultural sacrifices made by African Americans in higher classes in “Playwright August Wilson on Writing About Black America” (Bill Moyers, 1988)
* You gotta write women like… they can’t express ideas and attitudes that women of the feminist movement in the sixties made. Even though I’m aware of all that, you gotta be very careful if you’re trying to create a character like that, that they don’t come up with any greater understanding of themselves and their relationship to the world than women had at that time. As a matter of fact, all my characters are at the edge of that, they pushing them boundaries, they have more understanding. I had to cut back and say, “These are feminist ideas.” My mother was a feminist, though she wouldn’t express it that way. She don’t know nothing about no feminist woman and whatnot but she didn’t accept her place. She raised three daughters, and my sisters are the same way. So that’s where I get my women from. I grew up in a household with four women…
** On how he writes female characters in “An Interview with August Wilson in The Believer magazine (November 1, 2004)
# Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

## Quotes

* We were working on a long and complex song called ‘The End,’ which is hard-driving jazz played simultaneously with a baroque string quartet. I wanted the hard hitting music to also have a layer of quiet restraint from the classical music. To me it made complete sense. I thought it was beautiful.
** Neal Barnard The Chaos of Neal Barnard March 7, 2017)
* We consider classical music to be the epitome and quintessence of our culture, because it is that culture’s clearest, most significant gesture and expression. In this music we possess the heritage of classical antiquity and Christianity, a spirit of serenely cheerful and brave piety, a superbly chivalric morality. For in the final analysis every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
** Herman Hesse, Joseph Knecht in The Glass Bead Game, R. Winton, trans. (1990)
* Nothing conduces so emphatically to the harmony of sounds as perfect classical piano play.
** Olga Rotari

## See also

* Music
# Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism is a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism in which primary emphasis is placed on securing the freedom of the individual by limiting the power of the government.

## Quotes

* Classical liberalism and libertarianism are ultimately radical creeds. They foresee worlds that have never been rather than must necessarily be (dogmatic leftists) or never were (dogmatic rightists). Hayek closed The Constitution of Liberty with the thought that he was not a conservative and that his position, that of the true or classical liberal or libertarian, was as far from conservatism as from socialism.
** Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Introduction
* So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
** Niall Ferguson, "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is'", The Guardian, February 20, 2011.
* The classical liberals advocated policies to increase liberty and prosperity. They sought to empower the commercial class politically and to abolish royal charters, monopolies, and the protectionist policies of mercantilism so as to encourage entrepreneurship and increase productive efficiency. They also expected democracy and laissez-faire economics to diminish the frequency of war.
** John R. Oneal and Bruce M. Russett, (1997). "The Classical Liberals Were Right: Democracy, Interdependence, and Conflict, 1950–1985". International Studies Quarterly. 41 (2): 267–294.

## See also

* Economic liberalism
* Laissez-faire
* Libertarianism
* Neoliberalism
# Class discrimination

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

## Quotes

* While bilingual is understood as a valuable asset or goal for middle-class and upper-class students, for working-class and poor students it is framed as a disability that must be overcome
** Jonathan Rosa Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2018)
* Let us go back and distinguish between the two things that we want to do; for we want to do two things in modern society. We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. You cannot train them for both in the time that you have at your disposal. They must make a selection, and you must make a selection. I do not mean to say that in the manual training there must not be an element of liberal training; neither am I hostile to the idea that in the liberal education there should be an element of the manual training. But what I am intent upon is that we should not confuse ourselves with regard to what we are trying to make of the pupils under our instruction. We are either trying to make liberally-educated persons out of them, or we are trying to make skillful servants of society along mechanical lines, or else we do not know what we are trying to do.
** Woodrow Wilson, The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1909)
* The state's fear of its citizenry is rooted in a deeper knowledge of systemic fissures in our country; fissures produced by the disgraceful treatment of an underclass — including women, children, dissenters, religious minorities, labour, prisoners, and more — often by state institutions themselves.
** Huma Yusuf, Missing rights (4 May, 2020), Dawn

## See also

* Class consciousness
* Class conflict
* Class stratification
* Injustice
** Social injustice
# Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (June 18 1850 – June 7 1933) was a significant American publisher.

## Quotes

* There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
** Quoted in "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left is Right" - Page 39 - by William P. Martin - Reference - 2004
# Cyril Tourneur

Cyril Tourneur (ca 1575 – February 28, 1626) was an English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England.

## Quotes

* A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.
** The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), Act III. Sc. 1. Compare: "Distilled damnation", Robert Hall (in Gregory's Life of Hall).
* joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.
** The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), Act IV. Sc. 4.

## External links

* ↑ The Revenger's Tragedy is now credited to Thomas Middleton and not Tourneur, see: Gibbons, Brian, ed. The Revenger's Tragedy; New Mermaids edition. New York: Norton, 1967; Second edition, 1991, ix
# Cyril Rootham

Cyril Bradley Rootham (5 October 1875 – 18 March 1938) was a British composer, conductor and university lecturer who, in the early 20th century, played a key part in the musical life of Cambridge. Rootham was musical director of St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1901 until his death in 1938.

## Quotes

* I am not a composer, I’m a clerk.
** Attributed to Rootham in a letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Byard, 20 May 1956; cited from "The letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958", p. 582.

## External links

* Cyril Rootham website
# Cyrus Nowrasteh

Cyrus Nowrasteh (September 19, 1956 –) is an American screenwriter and director.

## Quotes

* You don’t survive as a screenwriter-for-hire if you’re not willing to incorporate other people’s ideas or at least be willing to consider them. What I’ve found is that other people have really good ideas, which make you look better. It’s part of the process. At all stages of production, including pre- and post-, your film is going to change because it’s being shaped by all these people and ideas.
** An Interview with Cyrus Nowrasteh (March 26, 2012)
# Dorothy Ripley

Dorothy Ripley (1767 – 1831) was a British evangelist missionary who came to America in 1801; raised as a Methodist, she eventually associated most strongly with Quakers, and regularly attended their meetings.

## Quotes
#### The Bank of Faith and Works United (1819)

    The Bank of Faith and Works United (1819)
* As I am not a member of any community, no society can answer for my irregular conduct; neither do I wish to apologize to the world for my procedure; as I believe the Lord is my Shepherd, and Bishop of my soul. Duty to my Maker, excites me to faithfulness, knowing that life is the time to work for God; that I may be counted worthy to reign with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in "the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem."
** Preface (18 July 1819), p. 4
* Before I was born, my father was priest, And built to Christ Jesus, a house for the least, To worship Jehovah, the True Living God, Who gave us His favour, and Shed forth His Blood. The Fountain is open, for you and for me, That word it is spoken, and always will be, While sinners are living, in flesh on this earth, And Jesus is praying, and giving them birth.
** A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 7
* In Christ you will find, a very dear Friend; Who is of this mind, to love to the end; Yet satan is seeking, His sheep to devour; And God He is making some whole this bright hour.
** A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 17
* Whoever can feel, the love I do tell, Would take by the heel, poor sinners from hell; As downward they're going, to bring them above; To sing of Christ's dying, a Heaven of love.
** A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 18
* In this city I must visit the abodes of sorrow: but as yet no way has opened: no person offered to go along with me, which has made me determine to do nothing but what connot be avoided of a public nature. O that my little labour of love were finished, and comfortably completed to the joy of such who might hail me a welcome stranger on Zion's happy Coast, where my mansion of bliss awaits me, after all the storms of life are past.
** Letter to Abigail Eames (14 October 1805), p. 204

## Quotes about Ripley

* Perhaps the most extraordinary woman in the world. We need say no more than the truth about her …
** Obituary in the American Rail-Road Journal, Volume I, No. 4 (21 January 1832), p. 63, also in The Philadelphia Album and Ladies' Literary Port Folio, Vol. 6, No. 3 (21 January 1832), p. 22
# Dorothy Wanja Nyingi

Dorothy Wanja Nyingi (born in 1974) is a Kenyan ichthyologist and recipient of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of Academic Palms) for her work on Fish Biodiversity and aquatic ecology. She is the head of the Ichthyology Department at the National Museums of Kenya. She is the author of the first guide to fresh water fish in Kenya, Guide to the Common Freshwater Fishes of Kenya.

## Quotes
### "Book Review: Fishers of Kenya by Dr. Wanja" (2013)

"Book Review: Fishers of Kenya by Dr. Wanja", KTN News Kenya (December 9, 2013)
* The importance of this book is to show people that when you conserve water sources and wetlands you are also conserving the fishes there, with the livelihoods of those who depend on it.
* What does it do for the environment to have fish there, what does it do for the people there, why should we conserve it.
* You have to really love the work, you may hate the job but you really have to love what you are doing to stay.

### "Bottom Up - Wanja Nyingi on Changes needed in Conservation" (2020)

"Bottom Up - Wanja Nyingi on Changes needed in Conservation" (June 10, 2020)
* Our scientists, I think the primary thing they need to do is provide them information about what's changing and why, and together with them form solutions because they know what they need to do. So working together is always the best tip.
* Conservation is by the people.
* Indigenous and local communities are custodians of natural resources and their conservation practices are key to sustainable future."
# Dorrie O’Brien

Dorrie O'Brien is an American politician, author and leader of the Grand Prairie Texas chapter of ACT! for America.

## Quotes

* Hey, Dorrie here, If you do ask Shafi (Shafi Shahid) to not accept the position, please please please do not mention anything about the MB (Muslim Brotherhood) as part of your reason. He will deny it, and mess with your head.
* If he said yes, he’s still mess with your head. These dawah guys are very good. As to the S-T branding the TCGOP (Tarrant County Republican Party) as a bunch of bigots or racists, they don’t need an excuse, they do it already. We’re patriots who don’t allow jihadists to play in the fields of the lord.
** Tarrant Republicans met to discuss ousting Muslim from party post,
* This is where we are in Tarrant County today. Divided by those who won’t see the stealth jihad and by those who do. Those who’ve drunk the Islamic Kool-Aid and those who haven’t.
** Texas GOP dispute pits religious freedom against claims of ‘stealth jihad’
* Islam is primarily a political ideology that has advanced historically under its shield of religion; we are questioning Dr. Shafi’s complete dedication to political Islam. We don’t care about the Islamic religion; it is certainly Dr. Shafi’s choice to believe whatever he wants. We do care very much about political Islam with its global jihad to conquer nations and make them Islamic and ruled by Shari’a law, which is completely antithetical to our way of life.
** ‘We’re patriots’: Tarrant Republicans met to discuss ousting Muslim from party post’
* We don’t think he’s suitable as a practicing Muslim to be vice chair because he’d be the representative for ALL Republicans in Tarrant County, and not ALL Republicans in Tarrant County think Islam is safe or acceptable.
* There are big questions surrounding exactly where Dr. Shafi’s loyalties lie, vis a vis Democrat and Republican policies.
** ‘A Texas county GOP's faction seeks to remove 'unsuitable' Muslim vice chair’
# Dorothy Ufot

Dorothy Ufot SAN is a Nigerian lawyer with specialty in Commercial law. She is the first woman from Akwa Ibom State to be elevated to the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).

## Quotes

* The future of international arbitration in Africa looks incredibly promising. With the increasing legislative changes, the growing importance of third-party funding and investment arbitration, there are exciting opportunities and positive developments in the use of arbitration as a dispute settlement mechanism in Africa.
** Dorothy spoke about International arbitration Guardian
* All countries in Africa are busy trying to attract foreign investments. You will agree with me that without international arbitration, there cannot be foreign investors. In any jurisdiction, arbitration is one of the viable components for attracting foreign investors.
** Dorothy spoke at 1st ICC Africa Regional Arbitration Conference Vanguard
* We want to ask ourselves hard questions. We want to examine our journey so far because the international arbitration community [once] believed that Africans did not have the intellectual competence to resolve the disputes.But today we are saying that the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators is the fastest-growing branch and we have many people that are qualified to act as counsel and arbitrators. When I began as an arbitrator over 10 years ago, Africans were not welcome. But that has changed. So, what are our prospects for the next 10 years?
** Dorothy spoke at the 7th International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Africa Conference on International Arbitration Business Day
* It is noteworthy that about 21 countries around the world are currently governed by women. Apart from politics and governance, women have also profoundly achieved groundbreaking feats in various fields such as medicine, law, economics, sports, space, technology, media and entertainment. Only recently, our own Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed the Director General of the World Trade Organization, making her the first woman and first African to occupy that position.
** Dorothy spoke about women on the International women's day Punch
* For decades, women and ethnic minorities have faced discrimination and disadvantage in arbitrator appointments, on the narrative that there is a dearth of qualified Arbitrators in Africa. I am happy to state that, the narrative certainly does not hold water today, as even this hall is filled with highly qualified Arbitrators of African descent
** Dorthoy spoke at the 6th ICC Africa Conference on International Arbitration This day live
# Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

Dorothy Wellesley (30 July 1889 – 11 July 1956), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an English socialite, author, poet and literary editor. She was born Dorothy Violet Ashton at Maidenhead.

## Sourced

* Sun-blistered ships on opal seas, Pacific stars split round the skies, What have I now to do with these Who know the wonder of your eyes?
** Poem: Winter Flame
* And elm-trees, massed like ostrich feather plumes, Are streaked and shot with fire.
** Poem: Lost Lane
# Dorothée Munyaneza

Dorothée Munyaneza (born 1982), is a British-Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer. She has produced two performance pieces, Samedi Détente and Unwanted, both about the Rwandan genocide.

## Quotes

* Rwanda is in me, it’s very deep. My creativity is linked to the past, my childhood there. There is much to be said and told, not just through dance and music, but that is one way to address it. It’s a question of creating, mending, performing, witnessing, sharing.
** Dorothée Munyaneza said that This piece was also fed by stories of other women (The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2017)
* It’s true that men who invade territories also want to annihilate the physical body, the social body. But I decided to zoom into the stories of the Rwandan women and let that spread out and speak of the others.
** the true said Dorothée Munyaneza (The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2017)
* I would ask if I could take a photo after talking to them, and most would change into a beautiful dress. They wanted me to carry beauty and hope with me.
** Dorothée Munyaneza said, there were also wonderful moments (The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2017)
* I recorded their voices and really tried to capture how they held themselves, how they walked, how they wiped away their tears. It all became physical, choreographic, material. We hear some of their testimonies in the piece, and I had to find a way for the body to navigate through these spoken words
** At first it was going to be a solo piece said Dorothée Munyaneza (The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2017)
* The choreography was about digging into the physical memories of these women’s tension, their rage, their sorrow. I tried to honestly remember my feelings and the emotional journey I went through in their presence. I am not trying to reproduce rape; I want to cut through the trauma so that people can receive and understand these experiences. The body speaks when testimony has been suspended.
** Dorothée Munyaneza said that, For me, the journey has been painful (The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2017)
# Eurovision Song Contest 1988

The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland at the RDS Simmonscourt on 30 April 1988 and was hosted by Irish broadcaster Pat Kenny and Miss Ireland 1980 Michelle Rocca.
The winner was Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi", performed by Canadian singer Céline Dion and composed by Atilla Şereftuğ with lyrics in French by Nella Martinetti.

## Quotes

* Iceland did very well. That was "Beathoven", not Beethoven. Beethoven is probably rolling over just at the moment.
** Pat Kenny
# Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is a annual song competition held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956.

## About

* In this contest, there is no place for organised attempts to unfairly influence the outcome.
** Jon Ola Sand, Executive Supervisor of the Contest on behalf of the EBU ("Eurovision Song Contest organisers tighten measures to ensure voting integrity", ebu.ch, 6 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.)
* Perhaps the most widely celebrated object of ridicule was the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual television competition first broadcast in 1970. A commercial exercise glossed as a celebration of the new technology of simultaneous television transmission to multiple countries, the show claimed hundreds of millions of spectators by the mid-70s. The Eurovision Song Contest, in which B-League crooners and unknowns from across the continent performed generic and forgettable material, before returning in almost every case to the obscurity whence they had briefly emerged, was so stunningly banal in conception and execution as to defy parody. It would have been out of date fifteen years earlier, but for just that reason, it heralded something new. The enthusiasm with which the Eurovision Song Contest promoted and celebrated a hopelessly dated format and a stream of inept performers reflected a growing culture of nostalgia, at once wistful and disabused. If punk, postmodern and parody were one response to the confusions of a disillusioned decade, retro was another.
** Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

## Ukraine

* The presence of Ukraine at this international event is very important, especially in such a difficult time of war for us, it will enable us to convey Ukraine’s voice and message to the whole world.
** Oksana Skybinska, Head of Ukrainian Delegation while releasing 2024 national selection information.("Україна візьме участь у Євробаченні-2024: хто стане музичним продюсером?", eurovision.ua, 28 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2023.)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Eurovision Song Contest on Wikipedia
* Media related to Eurovision Song Contest on Wikimedia Commons