Denied Quotes - Page 28

• Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Liberty, Remember, Speak

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• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

  Richard Rohr

  Self, Years, Shadow

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

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• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Unseen, Weakness

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• I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.

  Keri Russell

  Crazy, Dessert, Should

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

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• When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

  Nell Carter

  Firsts, Found, Diabetes

  "Actress-singer Nell Carter dies", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2003.

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• Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Command Not, Order

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• The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Political, Politics, Should

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

  Toby Jones

  Running, Children, Thinking

  "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.

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• No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Appreciation, Heart, Blessing

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• But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Doe

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Opportunity, Long, Sound

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.10, Book Tree

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• New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Home, New Orleans

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls.

  Geert Wilders

  Fall, Light, Israel

  "‘Marked for Death’: Beck Interviews Anti-Islamist Dutch MP Geert Wilders" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.theblaze.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves.... Most women-it takes them a while to warm up to the "situation" but once they get into it, I'm sure they're going to get just as hooked as-well, everyone I know is!

  Lydia Lunch

  Men, Taught, Masturbation

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• We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Long, Forbidden Love, Desire

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• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Jail, Want, Prison

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.42, Macmillan

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• If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

  Italo Calvino

  Kissing, Flavor, Taste

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• My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

  Mason Cooley

  Parent, Sorrow, Solace

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• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ordinary, Satanic, Insult

  Salman Rushdie (2012). “Joseph Anton”, p.115, Random House

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• The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Bitterness

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• A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

  Mark Shurtleff

  Utah, Html, Justice

  Mark L. Shurtleff ‏ @MarkShurtleff, twitter.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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• In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Children, Rights

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• The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Cards, Credit

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