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• I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Teaching, Intelligent

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• Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.

  Richard Dawkins

  Race, Intellectual, Islam

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• There is no history of Donald Trump associating with the Ku Klux Klan. None whatsoever. But beyond that, people are saying that Trump is insensitive and he's boorish and he's a pig, and now he's sympathetic to all of these extreme right-wing groups 'cause that's who elected him. Okay, how many members of the Klan are there? The number is 200,000 tops. Tops! How many white supremacists are there? Where do they live? How do you campaign for them? Where do you get their votes? Where are they registered and how do you reach them in a campaign?

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Vote, Insensitive

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wise, Country, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wonderful, Surprise, Reviews

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never pretend to have the discerning and acute critical eye that a lot of the great critics in our business do have. I don't look at it as being a critic or placing a judgment on a film, and I do think, how do you decide which film is best anyway? It's always a little bit of a mixed bag. But, I think it is just a collective group of people coming together to honor the work of an artist - that's how I think of it.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Eye, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr. going through the things that you go through as a teenager with a disability. It's always his relationship to other characters. That was my issue with it.

  Zach Anner

  Teenager, Character, Son

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Icons, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• When you look at this, I think that there's been such a hard push on this. The reason they're called DREAMers is because that's the most sympathetic term that could be applied to among all of these DREAMers, there are some awfully bad people. And these dreamers go on to the age of 37 or 38 or maybe older.

  Steve King

  Thinking, People, Dreamer

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Mean, Hands, Decision

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• Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Flower, Heart, Looks

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• It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

  Jennifer Niven

  Hurt, People, Ifs

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.21, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Intelligent, Vanity, Ideas

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• As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

  Yip Harburg

  Country, Song, Philosophy

  Yip Harburg's letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1950.

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• What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

  Sarah Fielding

  Mean, Love Is, Desire

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• I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Portraits, Portraiture, Care

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• When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

  Jim Broadbent

  Research, Turns, Empathetic

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• I don't like sympathetic characters.

  Howard Barker

  Character

  "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2012.

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• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Character, Way, Likeable

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• Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

  Alex Flinn

  Book, Thinking, Viewpoints

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• There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

  Alexander Siddig

  Roles, West, Enough

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• Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Father, Atheism, Enlightenment

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• I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Desert, Developing Countries

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.

  David Cannadine

  Office, Way, Conservative

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