Denied Quotes

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

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.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.