"I wanted to make a public declaration of our faith.
"This march is an affirmation and declaration of our new pride".
We just made a public declaration of our "Ecosex Manifesto": "We shamelessly hug trees, massage the earth with our feet and talk dirty to plants.
She goes further still, voicing the ultimate taboo: that we revel in the exciting end-times madness of climate change, and even perhaps wrecked the world as a perverse declaration of our power over it.
The ratification of a treaty with the United States to avoid double taxation and the declaration of our interest in completing negotiations for a bilateral treaty to protect investments are signs as well.
In their sweeping "declaration of our sentiments," they call women to, among other things, "practice 'autokeonony' (self in community')," and they summon somebody, it's unclear who, "to liberate adolescents from slut-bashing, listless educators... and the silence that hangs over adolescents' heads, often keeping them isolated, lonely and indifferent to the world".
Last week, the first part of this series documented how Britain's wartime slogan, "We Can Take It", was adapted in the post-war years to "We Can Make It", and in that single transferred consonant was a bold declaration of our reliance on manufacturing, as well as an insight into British stoicism.
I was amazed at how emotional both weddings were — the first because it was a public declaration of our love in the company of everyone we cherished most in the world, and the second because married, which had applied to my parents and grandparents and back a hundred generations, was ours, too.
If it is God's world, and this is the first declaration of our creed, then faith has no fear of anything the world itself reveals to the searching eye of science".
It is both a declaration of our thriving into the future and a historical movement built on strategies of resilience.
