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• It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Son, Sea

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• In every cry of every man,
  In every infant's cry of fear,
  In every voice, in every ban,
  The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

  William Blake

  Men, Voice, Mind

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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• Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

  Dave Barry

  God, Animal, Walking Sticks

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• The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Prejudice, Kind, Investigation

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• If alcohol is legal, I don't see why people still have a ban on marijuana.

  Megan Fox

  Marijuana, People, Alcohol

  "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Megan Fox interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Sex, Military, Believe

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• If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Should, Protect

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beach, Strong, Want

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well. I'm not sure it's illegal, but it's extremely stupid.

  David Brooks

  Stupid, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I was hoping that by very publicly going to the police, other people would follow suit. Around this time was the whole Rehtaeh Parsons publication ban bullshit. She died because she couldn't handle the stress of having been assaulted and ridiculed for having been raped. And I was like, "I'm not going to turn into Rehtaeh Parsons for this. I will remain public."

  Lucy DeCoutere

  Stress, Bullshit, People

  Source: int-www.macleans.ca

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• Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

  Ari Shapiro

  Moving, Years, Oil

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.

  Susan Davis

  Oil, Cyber Attacks, Years

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". Interview with Robert Siegel, wuwm.com. December 21, 2015.

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• Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.

  Ryan Grim

  Liars, Bully, Racist

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin and Michael Oreskes, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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• I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

  Kit Malthouse

  Thinking, Should, Trump

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

  Edward Leigh

  Speech, Surprise, Trump

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response.

  Corri Wilson

  Inappropriate, Response

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

  Keir Starmer

  Believe, Merit, Offensive

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.

  David B. Rivkin

  Country, Order, Facts

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible.

  David B. Rivkin

  Country, Impossible, Terrorism

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Ridiculous, Seems

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who knows what. And meanwhile the countries that really have been involved in terrorism, they're out. It's kind of like I think it was Oklahoma banning Sharia law.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Thinking, Oklahoma

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single terrorist act. Those are the seven [Donald Trump] banned. But, you leave the ones that really are responsible, like Saudi Arabia, which is the center for propaganda and funding and so on for radical Islamic Jihadism, well you can't touch them because of business interests, also they have oil and so on and so forth.

  Noam Chomsky

  Islamic, Oil, Arabia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases the threat of terror. It lays the basis for terror. It's just like the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. They're the most fabulous recruiting techniques for Al Qaeda and ISIS.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Isis, Atrocities

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

  Peter van Agtmael

  People, Irrational Fear, Moments

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• The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Administration, Trump, Reverberation

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