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Letter "O" » outrages
«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)
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«Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence»
«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.»
«Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
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outraged, outrages, plea, temperately, Tramples
«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)
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«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.»
«To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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bounds, moderation, outrage, outraged, outrages, with moderation
«Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation»
«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)
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«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.»
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