After friends and family shared stories of Donald Marbury's life, they invited Rose — the Knicks' elder statesman and conscience — to speak on behalf of the team.
To roaring applause, he accepted Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award 2015 on behalf of his father, the artist and activist, who lives under surveillance in China and is forbidden to leave.
Hearing it after the Barber brought a heightened sense of two composers articulating questions of conscience both as individuals and on behalf of humanity.
We will support democracy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom.
Photograph: JASON REED/REUTERS Updated at 6.32pm GMT 5.06pm GMT Obama gives a big-picture foreign policy summary: We will support democracy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom.
During the cold war, the human rights community mobilized on behalf of prisoners of conscience.
The Defending Freedoms Project, in association with Amnesty International and ChinaAid, calls on members of the European parliament and US congressmen and women to adopt and advocate on behalf of prisoners of conscience from around the world.
With the war closing in, her strong social conscience, which had earlier fired her to campaign on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti, now impelled her to enlist in the cause of Allied propaganda.
More fervently still — Liu never misses an opportunity to skewer Communist Party hypocrisy — he recalls that in the years before its victory in 1949, the party's newspapers "were constantly criticizing the Chiang Kai-shek regime for its repression of free speech and often issued loud appeals on behalf of persecuted voices of conscience".
Known in his country as "the voice of the voiceless", Mawanga has a strong social conscience and is not afraid to speak out on behalf of the poor.
