Jesse Jackson

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

American Activist

James Fenton

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.

British Poet

Juan Williams

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

American Journalist

Mike Cernovich

Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.

American Writer

Gavyn Davies

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

British Businessman

H. P. Lovecraft

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

American Novelist

Thomas Huxley

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

English Scientist

Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

English Novelist

Francis Schaeffer

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

American Theologian

Richard Rohr

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

American Clergyman

Orthodoxy can imply adherence to cultural norms that may seem outdated or conservative.

Cultural Binding

Use orthodoxy to discuss common practices or beliefs in society, politics, or other fields.

Mainstream Reference

Orthodoxy often suggests a lack of flexibility or openness to new ideas.

Implied Rigidity

Orthodoxy in religious context signifies full agreement with established and traditional beliefs.

Religious Alignment

Using orthodoxy in religious terms can indicate a person's strict adherence to those beliefs.

Adherence Signifier

Orthodoxy can help identify and unite group members through shared beliefs.

Group Identity

 The more I learned about these unethical practices, the more violated I felt, particularly because businesses from my own community were the ones taking advantage of my orthodoxy. So, with emotions running high, and absolutely no experience in butchery, some friends and I opened a meat store

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 is doing to places overseas. Second, I think we really need to rethink the war on drugs. We're not talking about legalizing cocaine. Let's not get carried away here. Just talking about sitting down and reviewing drug policy orthodoxy, which has for 40 years done nothing but move traffickers

Kendra McSweeney: Drugs,...

 the tie should go to allowing more rather than less speech. Here's why. For one, there's always the risk that an innovative or creative idea gets squelched because it seems unfamiliar or dangerous. Almost by definition, innovative ideas challenge orthodoxies about how things should be.

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 because there are stem cells in the brain, even, which can enable new myelin, new insulation, to be laid down over the damaged nerves. And this observation is important for two reasons. The first is it challenges one of the orthodoxies that we learnt at medical school,

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 appropriating ideas and profiting from cultures they considered primitive? Questions like this deserve scrutiny, as artists continue to redefine standards. Perhaps not too long from now, the bold innovations of modern art will seem like stale orthodoxies,

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 Indeed, some of the world traditions think very little of religious orthodoxy. In the Quran, religious opinion -- religious orthodoxy -- is dismissed as "zanna:" self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other,

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 because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective

Glenn Greenwald: Why...

 in the orthodoxy of austerity. Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.

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 which feeds, or has been feeding, our insatiable appetite for visual stimulation with an ever greater digital virtuosity. High definition, in our opinion, has become the new orthodoxy.

Liz Diller: Architecture...

 equally I didn't want to conform to some heteronormative orthodoxy I wanted to bust that orthodoxy wide open to liberate sexuality and society for

Orthodoxy

The normal or accepted way of thinking about or doing something.

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Belief in or agreement with the official or generally accepted principles, doctrines, or beliefs of a religion or group.

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