#denied

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#as far as #denied #facts #failed #far

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#available #back #between #british #bureaucratic

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#denied #peaceful #rarely

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#cleaning #denied #lack #life #masterpiece

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#been #choice #denied #down #else

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. ↗

— Claud Cockburn

#been #believe #denied #never #officially

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#denied #deserve #equal #equal rights #find

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

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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

#believe #built #came #cities #denied