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People that have the power will use that power to benefit themselves and not the people that have been historically overburdened. – Chris Tessum	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Then, the other aspect is, when you have a community of color that is a voluntary community, people aren’t forced to live there, those are communities that tend to have less of a voice, so decision makers place polluting sources in those communities because there’s not as much howling by people with power when they do. So those communities get the highways; they get the landfills; they get the fence lines. – Katherine Pruitt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Putin has repeatedly referred to Russia as a ‘nuclear power’ as well as ‘nuclear superpower’ since being elected to the post [of] president of Russia in 2000. Such references did not stop when Trump came to power and they continued after Trump left the White House. – Simon Saradzhyan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These elite women possessed the materials not only for displaying their status( e.g., belts and necklaces) but also for enacting power, such as prestigious wares for hosting politicized feasts, they were highly venerated with ample offerings from all those who attended their funerals, demonstrating their continued social importance within their communities throughout their lives. – Bryan Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even the countries that are talking pro-nuclear are having big trouble developing nuclear power. – Miranda Schreurs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Germany’s phase-out of nuclear power is a historic event and an overdue step in energy terms, it is high time that we leave the nuclear age behind and consistently organize the renewable age. – Simone Peter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The position of the German government is clear: nuclear power is not green. Nor is it sustainable, we are embarking on a new era of energy production. – Steffi Lemke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
To anyone who has doubted the South, anyone who’s doubted the power of Tennesseans to advocate for an end to gun violence, anybody who’s doubted the movement to end assault weapons – anybody who’s doubted the movement, here’s your answer: The movement still lives. – Justin Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had massive power grid failures last summer … that was an eye opener for everyone. – Salma Islam	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are tapping into as many decentralized renewable sources as possible, and not relying on just a central power grid, the way we see it, if we can do this right here in Bangladesh, you can actually do it anywhere. – Salma Islam	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We demand that democracy be for everybody, not just for rich White men in suits, not just for rich White people who got these positions of power perpetuating the status quo. – Justin Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The current financial crackdown is a new wave of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign against the financial sector for consolidation of his power. – Chongyi Feng	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are the one stealth platform with the striking power and survivability to counter the PLA Navy’s surface and subsurface forces. – Carl Schuster	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Submarines are one area where the United States retains unchallenged superiority over China, they are the one stealth platform with the striking power and survivability to counter the PLA Navy’s surface and subsurface forces. – Carl Schuster	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While each of those stories is unique, together, they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who abuse children, and those who enable that abuse by concealing it, what was consistent throughout the stories was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and the church leadership held over survivors, their families and their communities. – Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For me, my own journey,( it was about) finding a higher power and leaning on that and being like, ‘ Please save me, ’ and then feeling saved, and then shortly later,( I met) the woman of my dreams. – Chris Pratt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other. – Candace Rondeaux	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Instead he’s using his power to silence people who are calling for solutions that he opposes. – The House speaker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
From the point of view of most White people, Jews were way more engaged and they made the choice to ally themselves with another disadvantaged community in order to protect equality for everyone, from the African American side, that was great, but Jews also had this economic power – because they were White – that they were not using necessarily to help the cause. – Cheryl Greenberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For the most part, we are on the right track for Malaysia – it’s a reform that has been a long time coming, we should not deny the fact that the state is killing someone and whether the state should have this kind of power … having the mandatory punishment abolished is a good time for us to start reflecting about it. – Dobby Chew	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today’s move by the General Assembly to repeal our pistol permit law has made our communities less safe. Now, dangerous people – like violent criminals and domestic abusers – will be able to more easily get their hands on guns, too many worry that their kids may not come home from school. Gun violence is a terrifying threat, and eliminating background checks will make the job of law enforcement officers more difficult. While our legislators failed us, I’ll continue to do everything in my power to keep people in our state safe. – Josh Stein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
(It was) a dramatic erosion of their political power and political posture. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Well perhaps it is the context in which words are spoken that give them the power of meaning. I LOVE YOU DOG. – Penn Jillette	added by ISato 1 year ago

People that have the power will use that power to benefit themselves and not the people that have been historically overburdened.

– Chris Tessum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then, the other aspect is, when you have a community of color that is a voluntary community, people aren’t forced to live there, those are communities that tend to have less of a voice, so decision makers place polluting sources in those communities because there’s not as much howling by people with power when they do. So those communities get the highways; they get the landfills; they get the fence lines.

– Katherine Pruitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin has repeatedly referred to Russia as a ‘nuclear power’ as well as ‘nuclear superpower’ since being elected to the post [of] president of Russia in 2000. Such references did not stop when Trump came to power and they continued after Trump left the White House.

– Simon Saradzhyan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These elite women possessed the materials not only for displaying their status( e.g., belts and necklaces) but also for enacting power, such as prestigious wares for hosting politicized feasts, they were highly venerated with ample offerings from all those who attended their funerals, demonstrating their continued social importance within their communities throughout their lives.

– Bryan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even the countries that are talking pro-nuclear are having big trouble developing nuclear power.

– Miranda Schreurs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Germany’s phase-out of nuclear power is a historic event and an overdue step in energy terms, it is high time that we leave the nuclear age behind and consistently organize the renewable age.

– Simone Peter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The position of the German government is clear: nuclear power is not green. Nor is it sustainable, we are embarking on a new era of energy production.

– Steffi Lemke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To anyone who has doubted the South, anyone who’s doubted the power of Tennesseans to advocate for an end to gun violence, anybody who’s doubted the movement to end assault weapons – anybody who’s doubted the movement, here’s your answer: The movement still lives.

– Justin Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had massive power grid failures last summer … that was an eye opener for everyone.

– Salma Islam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are tapping into as many decentralized renewable sources as possible, and not relying on just a central power grid, the way we see it, if we can do this right here in Bangladesh, you can actually do it anywhere.

– Salma Islam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We demand that democracy be for everybody, not just for rich White men in suits, not just for rich White people who got these positions of power perpetuating the status quo.

– Justin Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The current financial crackdown is a new wave of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign against the financial sector for consolidation of his power.

– Chongyi Feng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are the one stealth platform with the striking power and survivability to counter the PLA Navy’s surface and subsurface forces.

– Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Submarines are one area where the United States retains unchallenged superiority over China, they are the one stealth platform with the striking power and survivability to counter the PLA Navy’s surface and subsurface forces.

– Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While each of those stories is unique, together, they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who abuse children, and those who enable that abuse by concealing it, what was consistent throughout the stories was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and the church leadership held over survivors, their families and their communities.

– Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For me, my own journey,( it was about) finding a higher power and leaning on that and being like, ‘ Please save me, ’ and then feeling saved, and then shortly later,( I met) the woman of my dreams.

– Chris Pratt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.

– Candace Rondeaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead he’s using his power to silence people who are calling for solutions that he opposes.

– The House speaker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From the point of view of most White people, Jews were way more engaged and they made the choice to ally themselves with another disadvantaged community in order to protect equality for everyone, from the African American side, that was great, but Jews also had this economic power – because they were White – that they were not using necessarily to help the cause.

– Cheryl Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For the most part, we are on the right track for Malaysia – it’s a reform that has been a long time coming, we should not deny the fact that the state is killing someone and whether the state should have this kind of power … having the mandatory punishment abolished is a good time for us to start reflecting about it.

– Dobby Chew

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today’s move by the General Assembly to repeal our pistol permit law has made our communities less safe. Now, dangerous people – like violent criminals and domestic abusers – will be able to more easily get their hands on guns, too many worry that their kids may not come home from school. Gun violence is a terrifying threat, and eliminating background checks will make the job of law enforcement officers more difficult. While our legislators failed us, I’ll continue to do everything in my power to keep people in our state safe.

– Josh Stein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(It was) a dramatic erosion of their political power and political posture.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Well perhaps it is the context in which words are spoken that give them the power of meaning. I LOVE YOU DOG.

– Penn Jillette

added by ISato
1 year ago

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