He asserted the value of Latin culture in the role of father of Latin prose literature.
Usually practitioners articulated an intuition that debates about the ancients were meaningless, "to the opinions of the ancients on contagion, we do not think them of much value," and asserted the value of empiric evidence: "we never, indeed, could see the very great importance of referring back to the ancients for evidence of that which passes before our own eyes".
Another was that National Socialism had endlessly asserted the values of a classless national community, and by intensifying the Nazification of the army with the appointment of political commissars, the regime had made that the key embodiment of the new Germany.
Preservation is now being called upon to assert the value of such distinctions.
If the poets don't assert the value of their words, who will?
It also allows us to assert the value of the politics that we stand for," she said.
Asserting the value of the unique contribution that federated Italians might make to world civilization, he recommended the creation of an Italian federation headed by the pope.
The great Romantic essayists – Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle – used it to assert the value of the individual human voice in a world increasingly felt to be dominated by "abstraction".
It said, "Look at me asserting the value of painting in an era characterized by the abstract perfection of new media"; it said, "Look at how cutting edge my old-fashionedness is".
Working within this general perspective, subaltern studies sought to rethink history from the perspective of the subaltern and, in this way, bring to light and assert the value of alternative experiences and ways.
Again and again, the movie, "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train," shows its subject asserting the value of nonviolent civil disobedience, which he calls a necessity, and the need for "people's movements" to effect social change.
