Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin's memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.
We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly. . . when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?
When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.
Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.