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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man
Justice
Take
He
True
Up
Dies
Refuses
Which
Stand
Stand Up
Right
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill
Victory
Fighting
Possible
Always
Person
Stop
Refuses
Who
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Reward
Release
Only
Effort
Person
Quit
Refuses
After
Fully
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
Good
Ourselves
Shall
Disarm
Well
Opposition
Refuses
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
Man
Only
He
Refuses
Creature
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
Bobby Sands
War
People
Political
Alien
Unwanted
Prisoner
Our
Perennial
Casualty
Between
Withdraw
Because
Am
Oppressed
Oppressive
Irish
Irish People
Refuses
Being
Regime
Land
Fought
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
Virgil
Soil
Will
Consider
Bear
Refuses
Each
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Baldwin
Man
World
Black
Power
White
Definitions
Threatened
Accept
Refuses
Whenever
White World
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell
Truth
Man
Dangerous
Power
Moral
Must
Rate
More
He
Idea
Make
Accept
Does
Tariff
Than
Fixing
Refuses
Should
Working
Who
Even
Position
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
Rabbi Hillel
He
Learn
Refuses
Who
Deserves
Extinction
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Albert Camus
Freelance
Only
Join
Remains
Take
He
Part
Combat
Armies
Without
Least
Committed
Artist
Refuses
Refusing
Really
Regular
Who
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer
Life
Time
You
Innocent
Evil
First
Possesses
Circumstances
Bad
Easy
Torture
Bad Guy
Case
Guy
Except
Could
He
Ticking
Time Bomb
Refuses
Information
Stake
Choice
Captured
Bomb
Two
Save
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Politics
Democracy
Giving
Arrogant
Submit
Our
Ancestors
Classes
Obscure
Merely
Votes
Most
Dead
Around
Tradition
Walking
Refuses
Happen
Means
Who
Oligarchy
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells
Imagination
Crew
Must
See
Sort
Doing
Submarine
Confess
Any
Refuses
Anything
Sea
Suffocating
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
Helena Blavatsky
History
Property
Men
Secret
Born
Various
Dates
Countless
Doctrine
Deal
Geology
Anthropology
Times
Esoteric
Common
Refuses
Which
Theories
Teachings
Assign
Incompatible
Millions
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren
Love
World
Other
Aims
Though
Must
Conceal
Fail
Because
Exist
Refuses
To Love
Hard
Reasons
Many
Express
Why
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
Richard von Weizsaecker
Risks
Remember
Prone
New
Infection
Refuses
Inhumanity
Whoever
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Hugh Laurie
Good
Tired
Be Happy
Happy
Hate
People
Hero
Good People
Drama
Kind-Hearted
Would
Minute
About
Morally
Imperfection
Take
He
Road
Like
House
Always
Got
How
Real
Dull
Friend
Person
Real Person
Moved
Refuses
Away
Last
Resolutely
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'
Jonathan Kozol
Political
Word
Black
Three
Half
Become
White
Our
Synonym
Kids
Diverse
Segregated
Schools
Call
Hispanic
Maybe
Refuses
Establishment
Which
Asians
Means
Use
Two
Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.
Mark Knopfler
Political
Criticism
Backward
Insecure
Religious
Advertise
Itself
Refuses
Whenever
Establishment
Repressive
Regime
Tolerate
Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.
Noam Chomsky
Unlike
Hundreds
Systems
Weapons
Inspection
Join
Allow
Delivery
Advanced
Non-Proliferation
Israel
Iran
Refuses
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Treaty
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
Faith
Knowledge
Natural
Unpardonable
Absolutely
Highest
Sin
Blind
Blind Faith
Him
Authority
Duties
Refuses
Acknowledge
Skepticism
If Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.
Abby Johnson
Life
Daily
Woman
Independent Woman
Face
Too
Those
Independent
Wear
Pretty
Dresses
Struggles
Dirty
Ideas
Know
Princess
Make
Because
Messy
Get
Afraid
Expensive
Refuses
Wants
Disney
Who
Her
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
Alan Ladd
Hell
Think
Nerve
Any
Refuses
Autographs
Movie
Movie Star
Who
Star
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
Alastair Campbell
Truth
Day
Eyes
Own
Daredevil
See
Seeing
Seems
Obstacles
His
Reporter
Died
Getting
Refuses
Who
Her
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion
Heritage
Drawing
Constant
Constant Flow
Fearless
Self
Generating
Thus
New
Ideas
Bow
New Ideas
Commerce
Confident
Refuses
Whilst
Flow
British
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