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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #empowerment #feminism #gender #history

Poems are difficult to silence.


Stephen Greenblatt


#poems #poetry #silence #suppression #censorship

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#been #black #distorted #either #history

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.


Rowan Atkinson


#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.


Saul Bellow


#adjoining #down #everybody #hold #knows

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.


Frederick Douglass


#free #free speech #hearer #rights #speaker

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.


Emanuel Celler


#communism #communist #firmly #fought #freedom

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.


Rush Limbaugh


#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.


Titus Livius


#finally #never #often #say #suppressed

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.


John Henry Mackay


#brief #i #make #never #other






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