#denied

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

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If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

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I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

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Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. ↗

— John L. Lewis

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I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. ↗

— Alice Paul

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

— Francois Rabelais

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As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. ↗

— Robert Casey

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The American people have been denied important information for their own protection. ↗

— Bob Graham

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