“This day marks once and for all times the end of our long suffering and today, too, we affirm our sovereignty as a people.”
Xanana Gusmao
“Today, the Supreme Court affirms (the trial courts') findings.”
Craig Waters
“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
Voltaire
“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”
John Stuart Mill
“To affirm is to make firm.”
Peter McWilliams
“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
John Burroughs
“We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.”
Bill Moyers