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

Negatives Emphatic Over Always Denied May Being Really Asserted Suggest

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. Jose Marti

Life Charity Will Lesson Spend Those Seeing Give No-One Oven Denied Survive Did Door Bread Who Whole Flour Bring

It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel. Justin Cartwright

American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.' Karan Mahajan

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go. Kate Atkinson

Education Me School Father Horrible Had Allowed He House Got Go Private Denied Private School Childhood Grammar Grammar School Place Paid

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

Knowledge Political Would Unprecedented Sabotage Pursue Scheme Facts Had Failed Denied Led Surveillance Any As Far As Public Far

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

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

Life Women Later Defied Distraction More More And More Tenacious He Calling Blindness His Denied Just Candles Refusing Them Presence

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin. Lori Lightfoot

Nature Opportunity Skin Like Know Denied Your Based

Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy. M. Stanton Evans

Army Woman Innocent Black Party Victim Defense Member Has-Been Pentagon Annie Since Undercover Moss Clerk Identified She Democrats Been Denied Lee McCarthy Agent Worked Communist Communist Party Who Code Ever Her Treated

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago. Martin Bashir

I really couldn't come out until after I got my citizenship, because it was a disclaim - back then, it could have been a disqualifier. I could have been denied my U.S. citizenship because I was gay. So I didn't - I stayed quiet. Martina Navratilova

Gay Back Out Citizenship Stayed Could Come Until Because Got Been Denied Quiet After Then Really

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences. Matthew Desmond

Consequences Those Kids Systematically Record Brunt Bearing Arguably Most Because Housing Denied Families Stamped Moms Assistance Need

We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold. Melanne Verveer

Rights Women World Dangerous Extremism More Takes Unstable Know Most Denied Oppressed Women Are Than Often Where Hold Places

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. Merce Cunningham

Dance Think Never Abstract Denied Movement Such A Thing Expressive Thing

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon. Michael McCaul

Destruction President Took Responsible Between Arm Terrorist Israel Lebanon West Denied Iran Current Conflicts Place Holocaust Even

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era. Michelle Alexander

Education Great Vote Benefits Jim Jim Crow Those Crow Excluded Like Employment Housing Access Era Been Denied Labeled Discriminated Legally Juries May Automatically Against Public Much Grandparents Right

People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits. Michelle Alexander

Life Home Legal People Benefits Political Face Prison Other Virtually Economic Area Employment Return Return Home Housing Denied Political Life Discriminated Discrimination Legally Against Public Social Public Housing Barred

I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that. Mike McCready

Secretary Clinton should be denied access to classified information. Congress must also hold the State Department accountable for fixing the culture of lax handling of classified information. Mike Pompeo

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

Faith Equality Liberty Responsibility Must Feed Longer Come Denied Where Repression Bread Place Public Them Ask Now Violence

You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft. Natalie Martinez

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