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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Children, Self

  "Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

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• Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Media, Voice

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are maximum aggravating circumstances, which supersede the mitigating circumstances. And there is not a single mitigating circumstance which speaks in favor of the accused, and therefore all the accused deserve (the) death penalty.

  Ujjwal Nikam

  Justice, Would Be, Favors

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• Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Grief, College, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• It really gets tiresome to be constantly accused of spreading negativity about Barack Obama and the country. He's doing that on his own. We just chronicle it here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Negativity, Barack

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.

  Lynne Stewart

  Hurt, Children, Acting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

  Julian Assange

  Hero, Political, World

  Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, www.wikileaks.org. August 19, 2012.

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• She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army." "Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army." "That's SO not the point!

  Richelle Mead

  Army, Rose, Pants

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• The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

  Sandra Gulland

  Dream, Queens, Night

  Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Errors, Self, Atheism

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday ... I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.

  Arsene Wenger

  Names, Giving, Four

  "'What I don't accept is lies' - Arsenal's Arsène Wenger hits out". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.

  David Crosby

  Song, Years, Whales

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• The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

  Seth Godin

  Writing, Mean, People

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• When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

  David Corn

  White, Issues, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• After multiple trips to Paris and being accused of participating in 'heinous' activities in regard to the state, I found my Romanian nationality revoked by 'presidential decree' in 1975. Because I hadn't asked for political asylum like everyone else, I had to live and travel with the infamous Nansen Passport from then on. This wasn't easy...I finally obtained my French citizenship in 1983.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Paris, Presidential, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Struggle, Writing, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

  Lynne Stewart

  Hurt, Children, Add

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Romance, Don't Trust, Wells

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Fire, Church

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• I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. ... This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. ... Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Integrity, Winning, Views

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• According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Excess, Biographies, Kim

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• I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

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