#intimidation

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#intervention #intimidation #judges #must #political

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#control #days #drill #greatest #had

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#challenging #confronted #considerable #corruption #cost

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#love #universe #life

In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#nerves #men

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#intimidation #slam #tool #used

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#art #believe #i #i believe #i believe that