Refused Quotes

430 quotes by 381 authors

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes,… — Ray Stannard Baker
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther… — Ramsey Clark
I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. — Billy Carter
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the… — Leonard Maltin
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me… — Taslima Nasrin
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch… — Oren Peli
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go. — Sarah Paulson
Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had… — Russell Pearce
Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican… — Ellen Tauscher
I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model. — Trisha Yearwood
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now… — Antonio Gramsci
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably… — Sam Shepard
I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to… — Evangeline Lilly
The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom. — Bob Barr
When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within… — Stephanie Beacham
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected… — Salmon P. Chase
As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same. — Sean Duffy

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