A woman who was unable to utter a word for more than a decade has spoken of a "miracle" after her speech was restored in a pioneering transplant.
Even Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a former Boy Scout who sat on their executive board for nearly a decade, has spoken out against the exclusionary policies, saying that, while the Boy Scouts have the right to make their own decisions, "I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation".
Tonight's profile subjects include the Broadway legend Jerry Herman, two Greenwich Village restaurateurs and a Roman Catholic nun who for decades has spoken out against church laws forbidding homosexuality.
For more than a decade, she has spoken out about and shed light on a term she helped usher in to the mainstream: the Prison Industrial Complex, which, by simple definition, revolves around the swift, perhaps hasty, expansion of the U.S. inmate population and all the political influences, racial issues and big business intertwined within it.
"He has been a proud supporter of the Commonwealth for more than four decades and has spoken passionately about the organization's unique diversity," May's spokesperson said, according to Reuters.
For more than two decades, Kim Goldman has spoken emphatically about her frustration and disgust over the O.J. Simpson murder trial in the deaths of her brother, Ron, and Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole.
For more than three decades, Mr. Olstein has spoken out about financial flaws in companies' books.
In the decades since her wartime experience, she has spoken out on issues like the torture of terrorists, which she argues is not only cruel but also ineffective.
FOR decades Shimon Peres, now Israel's president, has spoken of his country's yearning for a "new Middle East," one in which Israel is at peace with its neighbors, regional economies cooperate and the conflict with the Palestinians is finally set aside.
The sense of urgency he has spoken of for decades hit a fever pitch as he discussed the redline crossed by militants in their senseless slaughter of children around the globe.
Human and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King III, grandson of Martin Luther King, has spoken out,"Four decades ago, my grandfather proved that peaceful action of the masses can reverse the course of history, no matter how entrenched the status quo may seem.
