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Letter "R" » rob
«The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.»
«Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
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Abolitionist,
Author,
Lecturer,
Slave)
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About:
Society
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Keywords:
class,
class feeling,
conspiracies,
conspiracy,
degrade,
denied,
enforced,
enforcing,
oppress,
oppresses,
oppressing,
organized,
organized society,
prevails,
property,
rob
«We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness then we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware»
«The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it?s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.»
Author: Therese of Lisieux
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About:
Nature
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Keywords:
charm,
daisy,
flower,
lily,
rob,
rose,
scent,
scented,
scenting,
scents,
splendor,
splendors,
spring,
The Rose,
tiniest,
violet,
violets,
wanted
«The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(
Orator,
Politician)
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About:
Atheism,
Children,
Faith,
Infidelity,
Parents,
Skepticism,
Teachers and teaching
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Keywords:
agnostics,
atheists,
homes,
infidels,
pay back,
rob,
send back,
skeptical,
The Infidels
«We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.»
«To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.»
«Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; / To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! / And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? / Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
bow down,
decree,
desolation,
Down Under,
fall under,
fatherless,
needy,
prisoners,
rob,
unrighteous,
widows
«The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.»
«To rob Peter to pay Paul»