Quotes with accused

  • Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

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  • Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alberto Salazar Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Beeban Kidron From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Anne Boleyn Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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  • Bruce Parry I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
    As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Don Shula One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
    Don Shula
    American football coach and player (1930 - )
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Our King is accused of treachery; it is said of him that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Angelina Grimke Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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