Megan Phelps-Roper

Because of the dynamics on the picket line all my life, I had these expectations of people. It was all the things that I had learned about outsiders from the time I was tiny, that they were evil, that if they were being nice to me they were trying to seduce me away from the truth.

American Activist

Tom Brady

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

American Football Player

Maya Angelou

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

American Poet

Anne Sexton

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Paul Robeson

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

American Actor

Lindsey Vonn

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

American Athlete

Gary Ross

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

Ruby Dee

I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.

American Actress

Mitch Hedberg

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

American Comedian

Mikis Theodorakis

Greek Composer

The white picket fence is often associated with the ideal suburban home in American culture.

Traditional Symbol

Pickets can provide privacy and are used to visually block unwanted views into an area.

Visual Barrier

Picketing is usually a non-violent way to express disagreement or demand changes.

Peaceful Protest

Pickets aim to attract public attention and disrupt normal operations as a form of protest.

Disruption Intent

In many democratic countries, picketing is a protected form of free speech, but local laws may regulate it.

Right to Picket

Employers may respond to picketing with negotiation, legal action, or by ignoring the picket.

Employer Reaction

A military picket serves a strategic purpose of vigilance, often in a potentially hostile environment.

Military Vigilance

Military pickets can act as an early warning system to alert the main force of dangers.

Alert System

Picketing an area militarily secures a perimeter and can prevent enemy infiltration.

Defense Strategy

Soldiers may be on picket duty in shifts to ensure constant security and avoid fatigue.

Rotation Duties

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 helping cells survive and I then moved back to Edinburgh and in Edinburgh the experimental animal we use is the medical student it's a species close to human with several advantages over mice they're free you don't shave them they feed themselves and nobody pickets your office saying save the lab medical

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 when I was desperately hoping there was a way I could stay with my family. People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read. She said, "You're just a human being,

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 and a picket line protest singing band and we serve papers to our high school we said we're not going to take this then just to continue the trend that week in my high school graduation speech at the last second I decided that I was going to give a passionate passionate

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 this humble acknowledgment that kids are healthier when they have a wider range of adults to emulate and count on. Turns out, adults are healthier, too. It's a lot of pressure, trying to be that perfect family behind that white picket fence.

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 is never a theist don't even do that there is no scientist or atheist picketing outside of your church or synagogue or mosque you know that might not necessarily be true there is no such tradition so what is the motivation to

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 we put them into a golden world, an imagined world, an age of heroes, the world to come. And in the life of an individual, we often associate that with some object. The white picket fence, the perfect house.

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 in a world in which direct democracy and software agents are a viable form of participation. So how do we start the revolution? We don't start this revolution with picket fences or protests

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 around good life you know that know with the picket fence you know what I'm but sometimes the violence of prison is too much for success everyone goes into