Alice Paul
Suffragist, Activist
"Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid."
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored"
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted."
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"The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember."
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"Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored."
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"Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected."
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"Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare."
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"Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced."
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"Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored."
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"We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored."
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"It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored."
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"It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane."
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"When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good."
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"Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press."
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"All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them."
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"Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise."
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"We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves."
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"I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored."
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"Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside."
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"He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved."
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"History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television."
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"The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past."
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"I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't."
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