#denied

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

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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

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#brings #denied #every #except #grateful

Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#causing #companies #denied #federal #federal funding

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

#bar #bored #customers #denied #got

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#bread #come #denied #equality #faith

A right delayed is a right denied. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#denied #right

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. ↗

— Jonathan Raban

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