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Poets frequently use their craft to comment on social and political issues, shedding light on injustices and advocating for change.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

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6 months ago

Ignorance is the dogma of darkness ''but the annexation of a good faculty allowing light on the path. French Version L'ignorance est le dogme de l'obscurité'' mais l'annexion d'une bonne faculté permettant la lumière sur le sentier.

– Leger Merlin Figama

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10 months ago

Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead, as Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can be focused on shining a light on this disease that needs far more awareness and research.

– Heming Willis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not going back to ‘Be All You Can Be,’ because in the 1980s, the country exuded a sense of optimism. Think about the bright shining light on the hill. And the ‘Be All You Can Be’ of the 1980s reflected how youth felt about their future. That’s not the same feeling that youth have about their future today, they worry about being the first generation not to outpace their parents. So as we introduce ‘Be All You Can Be’ in 2023, to a new generation, we’re trying to reposition the army in their minds around the possibilities. It’s less about being all you can be already, and more about becoming all you can be.

– Alex Fink

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead. As Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can be focused on shining a light on this disease that needs far more awareness and research.

– Heming Willis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night. So he took the manilla folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night, it’s just this folder. It says ‘Classified Evening Summary’ on it. It’s not a classification marking. It’s not anything that is controlled in any way. There is nothing illegal about it.

– Timothy Parlatore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are some important things that are getting lost here in respect to that case, it’s the FBI who initiated this investigation, it’s the FBI and our agents that painstakingly and methodically put the case together against him, and it’s the FBI that arrested him….I think [what] the charges in that case demonstrate is the FBI’s willingness as an organization to shine a bright light on conduct that is totally unacceptable, including when it happens from one of our own people, and to hold those people accountable.

– Christopher Wray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Giving ConocoPhillips the green light on the Willow project is not just a disaster in its own right — it paves the way for even more oil and gas drilling in the area in the future, today’s decision sends the dangerous message that the fight against climate change, Alaska Natives’ and local residents’ lives, and wildlife are not good enough reasons to keep Big Oil from getting their way.

– Raul Grijalva

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a good example of where the federal government can lead and can help with keep our country safe and content can help protect the public by bringing to bear a federal statute where the penalties for that same conduct are relatively light on the state side.

– Randy Grossman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Nobody is that brazen to engage in this type of outrageous behavior against other people unless they know that they have a powerful enabler protecting them. Based on the facts and the evidence, that enabler is Mayor Eric Garcetti, despite attempts by Mayor Garcetti and the Biden Administration to frame complaints against him as a political hit job, some of the individuals who’ve come forward and shed light on the misconduct are from Mayor Garcetti’s own staff.

– Chuck Grassley

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1 year ago

Sen. Johnson and I have spent several years shining light on the Biden family’s foreign business entanglements, including multimillion-dollar deals with figures tied to the Chinese Communist Party, we’ve shown our work in the form of public reports and the release of bank records and legal documents substantiating our findings.

– Chuck Grassley

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1 year ago

Judicial Watch’s action shines light on the FDA’s lack of transparency regarding the dangerous drug mifepristone, after 22 years, and progressively diminished supervision, the American public still has no reassurance regarding the quality of the manufacturing process or the quantity of complications because the FDA does not mandate complication reporting unless it results in a woman’s death.

– Ingrid Skop

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath, it is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.

– Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If the Democrats vote against this resolution, then they are continuing in their coordinated effort to shield a potentially compromised President from necessary congressional oversight, we must shed light on the Hunter Biden family's international business schemes to determine if there is a national security threat.

– James Comer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm looking forward to when those solids light on Monday and you feel that pounding in the chest, the roar of the engines, a lot of people have put in a tremendous amount of work to get us here, and it's going to be an exciting day for us.

– Cliff Lanham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Monkeypox has shone a glaring light on this fact. Broadly speaking, the STD field has been vastly underfunded for 20 to 30 years.

– David Harvey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This sheds light on how dangerous human smuggling is, in the past, smuggling organizations were mom and pop.

– Craig Larrabee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is big, i think more people need to see this. It's not because I want recognition. It's just to shed light on what's going on in the world.

– Justine Lindsay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We knew it was important to our country and important to our audiences to shed light on the meaning and significance of Juneteenth, and not only as an historic event but really as a way to engage and educate people about what still needs to happen for all of us to achieve freedom and justice.

– Johnita Due

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pandemic shone a light on these big health disparities, but they also shone a light on the fact that [ public health systems ] don't have the structures in place to partner directly with communities.

– Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The prospect of Russia funneling money to U.S. environmental groups to do Russia’s bidding and actively oppose U.S. energy is a dangerous form of interference in our politics, it is time to shine a light on how and why green energy groups undermine American energy dominance, destroy American jobs, and weaken America on the world stage.

– Ted Budd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wanna apologize to the academy. I wanna apologize to all my fellow nominees, this is a beautiful moment and I'm not crying for winning an award. It's not about winning an award for me, it's about being able to shine light on all of the people.

– Will Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wanna apologize to the Academy. I wanna apologize to all my fellow nominees, this is a beautiful moment and I'm not crying for winning an award. It's not about winning an award for me, it's about being able to shine light on all of the people.

– Chris Rock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wan na apologize to the academy. I wan na apologize to all my fellow nominees, this is a beautiful moment and I'm not crying for winning an award. It's not about winning an award for me, it's about being able to shine light on all of the people.

– Tyler Perry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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