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• All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.

  Candace Pert

  Running, Emotional, Feel Good

  Candace Pert (2012). “Molecules Of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Feel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

  Agathon

  Time, Power, Past

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• So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

  Ellen Bass

  Healing, Writing, Responsibility

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• But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

  Kiera Cass

  Way, Certain, Speculation

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• At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.

  Steven Biko

  Children, Wife, Arrogance

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

  Booth Tarkington

  Gossip

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• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Reality, Justice

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.321, Bantam

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• Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Healing, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Littles

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Hands, Trying

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, School, Men

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, Justice, Black History

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God's non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who denied God with the top of their minds, but men who, while apparently incapable of doubting him with the top of their minds, lived as though he did not exist.

  John Baillie

  Atheist, Believe, Teaching

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• My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  America, Speech, Faces

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• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  Ovid

  Eye, Sight, Soul

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• There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Acting

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• Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

  Claud Cockburn

  Truth, Believe, Government

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.

  Heinz Pagels

  Religious, Writing, Science

  1988 The Dreams of Reason.

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• No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religion, Battle, Faces

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Garden, Two

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.170, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

  Wentworth Miller

  Country, People, And Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

  Barry Goldwater

  Air, Effort, Secret

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