Denied Quotes

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

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.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

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.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

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.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

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.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

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.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.