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«It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.»
Author: Carl T. Rowan
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
block, blocked, blocking, block out, discrimination, injustice, oppression, outraged, outrages, to become
«I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me»
Author: Jane Rule
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Men
| Keywords:
height, outraged, the Graces
«Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
admiring, blue blood, blue sky, borne, brethren, bright blue, checked, crowned, cursed, cursed with, disregarded, fertile, Fields, grand, hold water, infernal, lakes, loathing, noblest, outraged, rapture, raptures, rivers, sisters, Spirit of America, The Rapture, unutterable, warm-blooded, waters, woods
«Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature»
«Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bank, cashed, cash in, cash in on, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, have got, injustice, kudos, outrage, outraged, outrages, paper money, Refusing, shame, unable
«I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.»
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.»
«Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,Till we can clear these ambiguities.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambiguities, for a while, outrage, outraged, seal, till we
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