#denied

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#art #background #candy #child #culture

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #clergy #denied #faith

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#america #cannot #colossal #course #denied

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#denied #father #grandfather #grandmother #i

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#always #denied #deny #having #link

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#been #brutality #castro #cuban #cuban people

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#denied #does #exist #found #love

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#denied #desertion #enough #facilities #good

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#denied #difference #diversity #i #in the past

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ↗