Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"A dream deferred is a dream denied."
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Denied
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Ali Mazrui
Scholar, Political Scientist
"A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Justice delayed is democracy denied."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private."
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"I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me."
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"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
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"Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised."
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"What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons."
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"Justice deferred is justice denied."
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"Art degraded, Imagination denied."
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"Great heart will not be denied."
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"She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her."
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"Gentle he would be, denied he would not."
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"Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied."
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"[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth."
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"Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free."
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"If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied."
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"Nothing is denied to well-directed labor."
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