A dozen City Council candidates and ministers in their 20s and 30s held a news conference in McElderry Park Tuesday to encourage young people to speak out peacefully.
As Silverman said, "what better time than Independence Day weekend to speak up peacefully and declare 'Yes, we're all Americans?'".
Nunez was also among a dozen city council candidates and ministers in their 20s and 30s who held a press conference in McElderry Park Tuesday morning to encourage young people to speak out peacefully.
The victims are often those who peacefully speak up for the poor and oppressed, sometimes asking only for things as basic as respect for human rights, clean water, or health care.
In Cuba, as elsewhere, we must remain steadfast in championing the rights of all citizens to speak freely, assemble peacefully, and think differently.
"This has been a community that has always been able to speak out and protest peacefully," Mr. Mas Santos said.
"Our role is to promote their ability to speak out forcefully and peacefully as voices in a new civil society," he said.
But that is a price those living in free societies should willingly pay for the sacred right to express themselves, knowing, as well, that those who take offense are also invited to speak their minds -- peacefully, of course.
I call on the Egyptian military to protect Mohamed Morsi and his millions of supporters from acts of retribution and other abuses of their rights, including the right to speak freely and demonstrate peacefully.
The net effect of all these measures will be to silence critics and to deny them not only their right to speak out, but to peacefully organize and act to affect change in Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian lands.
