In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.
I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.
In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.
The extremists took over the primary process.
I accept the term extremist with pride.
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world
The left think that this special place in the world, the United States of America, it just happened. It just is. And it's our responsibility, as those who are lucky and fortunate enough, to happen to have been born here. It is incumbent upon us to share that same luck and good fortune with everybody else. Otherwise we are mean, selfish, polarized, partisan, extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, whatever.
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. ”
The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion. " That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.
I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.
Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.
