To demand to be recognized: Palestine has announced plans to seek statehood through the U.N. Security Council this week.
She will prize even an old man's fantasies — they are his last, best effort, after all — but she demands to be recognized for her life of struggle and her untrammeled mind.
While members of the MFDP demanded to be recognized as delegates to the national convention and gave speeches detailing the horrific conditions they dealt with in Mississippi, national party leaders including vice presidential hopeful Hubert Humphrey sought to deal with MFDP representatives behind closed doors.
They hereby request to be recognized as belonging in a way reminiscent of how Fanon in the early 1950s demanded to be recognized as black and Frenchman: "I am a Frenchman.
To claim her right, Mary Tudor began assembling her supporters in East Anglia and demanded to be recognized as queen by the Privy Council in London.
Imagine the force behind your own voice if you could harness your own vulnerable truth, your own perceived deficits -- perhaps casting yourself against expected type -- with such self-acceptance, will to exist and demand to be recognized.
I'm grateful to those who love who they want to love and demand that love be recognized, and I'm grateful to those who challenge gender identity and stretch all of us in the best of ways.
As I listened to Ms. Walker Pettigrew's fierce, brilliant testimony before the U.S. Congress, I gave thanks for her and other young women and girls like her, who are demanding that they be recognized as victims and survivors of sexual violence, and that those who hurt them be held accountable.
