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• Chacun exige d'e"  tre innocent, a'   tout prix, me"  me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Race, Heaven

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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• When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between “the accuser” and “the accused,” there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

  Jackson Katz

  Violent Acts, Media, Blood

  "DSK’s Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His 'Accuser'" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guilt, Spy, President

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• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Law, Justice

  "Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 18, 1963.

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• I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

  Andrew Thomas

  Law, Effort, Boards

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• More details coming out about Michael Jackson. It seems his 13-year-old accuser testified before a grand jury that Michael had seven locks on his bedroom door. See, what happened was whenever Michael would install one lock, the kid would grow an inch taller, and he'd have to put in another one, and then another one, and then another one.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Doors, Years

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• There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person's life when they have been falsely accused. Kirsten [Gillibrand] and I are not unaware that that is an issue we need to be concerned about, and that's why we have made changes in the legislation to address not just the rights of the victim, the accuser, but also of the accused.

  Claire McCaskill

  Impact, Rights, Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Issues, Abuse

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• Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser.

  David Hume

  Law, Names, Justice

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• I would like to suggest that what my accusers have been pleased to call the peace of the Church is more properly called the sleepiness of the Church and we should be thankful to God that it has been disturbed.

  Lloyd Geering

  Thankful To God, Being Thankful, Church

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• Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Riches, Crime, Produce

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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• Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Conscience

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• It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

  Chris Adrian

  Book, Angel, Grace

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

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• This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

  Elie Wiesel

  Strong, Accused, Contrary

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Men, Thought Provoking

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

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• For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Siege, Body Of Christ

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• We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

  D. A. Carson

  Brother, Blood, Lust

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• Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.

  Harry Browne

  Taken, Rights, Government

  Harry Browne (2000). “The Great Libertarian Offer”, Liam Works

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• The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something to point it in the right direction. A savior, perhaps. Save us, Chris! You must forgive me. Where have my manners gone. I don't think I've had a chance to formerly introduce myself. You may call me Bray Wyatt. But I have a thousand faces and a million names. Seducer, accuser, destroyer. I am the color red in a world full of black and white, and if you value your ability to breathe, don't get too close. Save us, Chris. Save yourself.

  Bray Wyatt

  Black And White, Thinking, Voice

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• If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

  Alan Watts

  Black, Calling, World

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.76, Random House

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• It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

  Jonathan King

  Publicity, Accused, Adverse

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• Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Judging

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• Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
  Can match the fierce unutterable pain
  He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
  Carries his own accuser in his breast.

  Juvenal

  Pain, Night, Fierce

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.470

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