243 Quotes About Recognition

Citizenship is more than an individual exchange of freedoms for rights; it is also membership in a body politic, a nation, and a community. To be deemed fair, a system must offer its citizens equal opportunities for public recognition, and groups cannot systematically suffer from misrecognition in the form of stereotype and stigma.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

When it came to being a legend, all it took was one person to recognize that you were epic. That was it.

Almost instinct, the way an animal knows the members of its pack, a baby knows her mother, two people flood with a mysterious urge to embrace as lovers.

The swimmer and the shark whose life he has saved find themselves face to face. They look into each other’s eyes for several minutes, and each is amazed to find such fierceness in the gaze of the other. They swim in a circle, not losing sight of each other, and they both say to themselves: ‘I was wrong until now; here is one more wicked than I.

There's a lot writing about love at first sight. And what is love at first sight but recognition? It's instant knowledge: that this is a person who will make your heart larger - a lover, a child. The same applies to places.

Intersectionality and the recognition and confrontation of our privilege, can make us better people with better lives.

We're all travelers in a dream of temptation

Big things are often just small things that are noticed. - Ed Kennedy