Offense Quotes - Page 7

• President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, Rights, President

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Causes, Different, Type

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• John Lewis has great history as a civil rights fighter.As a young man, he was one of the guys out there who was leading the parades during the [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] era. So, we all respect his history. But then I hear him crying the blues about Mr. [Donald] Trump and saying he's an illegitimate president, I take offense to that. If it's illegitimate, why is he going on?

  Jim Brown

  Kings, Men, Rights

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• In Europe, you can get arrested for being misogynist, arrested for being offensive. You know, these are actual offenses. These are things that police can come and take you away for in Europe. Americans have to understand how bad it is in Europe.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Europe, Police, Offensive

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Giving, Judging

  "Michelle Alexander: “Zimmerman Mindset” Endangers Young Black Lives with Poverty, Prison & Murder". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2013.

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• Obviously defense is my strength, but I still need to improve on that. I need to improve on offense. Every part.

  Avery Bradley

  Needs, Defense, Stills

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, People, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to arrest extraordinary numbers of people, particularly in poor communities of color, for minor drug offenses that get ignored on the other side of town.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Numbers, Color

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the war on drugs, state and state law enforcement agencies have been rewarded in cash by the federal government - through programs like the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant program - for the sheer numbers of people arrested for drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Numbers, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up to 80 percent of the cash, cars, and homes seized from suspected drug offenders. You don't even have to be convicted of a drug offense; if you're just suspected of a drug offense, law enforcement has the right to keep the cash they find on you or in your home, or seize your car if drugs are allegedly found in it or "suspected" of being transported in the vehicle.

  Michelle Alexander

  Home, Agency, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, College, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jail, Race, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Skills, Triangles, Feels

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• Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Might, Tweet

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Men, Suffering

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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• Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

  Hannah Arendt

  Diversity, Humanity, Would Be

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.235, Penguin

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• I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, Philosophy, Night

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

  Kate Mara

  Winning, Safe, Way

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

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• When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  People, Interviews, Accused

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

  Alan Thicke

  Firsts, Counseling, Ifs

  "Analyzing Ozzy's family". www.cnn.com. April 25, 2002.

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• I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

  Devon Sawa

  Jobs, Presses

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

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• Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

  Martin O'Malley

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  "Walker, O'Malley, Trumka". "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 10, 2012.

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• We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Rocks, Long

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• People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

  Dwight Howard

  Father, Successful, People

  "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.

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• They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Men, Dangerous Man, Politics

  Song: Mr. Lincoln

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