George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
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Ostracism
6 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence"
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