Against Quotes
11155 Against quotes by 5617 unique authors
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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period…
— Brent Scowcroft
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With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be…
— Jeff Miller
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If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What…
— Anil Ambani
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching…
— Cesare Pavese
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds.…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
— Lewis Mumford
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth…
— Robert Kennedy
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
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By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of…
— Lord Acton
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
— Maya Angelou
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The…
— William Wells Brown
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to…
— Roger Casement
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and…
— Frederick Douglass
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
— Frederick Douglass
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality,…
— Susan Faludi
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
— Betty Friedan
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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented…
— Henry Highland Garnet
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
— John F. Kennedy
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My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.
— John Oliver Killens
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My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by…
— Malcolm X
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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle…
— Malcolm X
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all…
— Anna Quindlen
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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
— Paul Robeson
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