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• First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.

  John Lewis

  Bridges, People, Goes On

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.

  John Lewis

  People, Vote, Attempting

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to agree with many, many things. So I used to get beaten quite frequently and I more or less accepted it as part of life.

  Edmund Hillary

  Desire, Unjust, Accepted

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• The people of Ethiopia are saying they've had enough of the killings and are tired of being exiled, imprisoned, beaten and we are done. We have had enough. We want peace now.

  Feyisa Lilesa

  Tired, People, Done

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.

  Judd Nelson

  Guy, Kim, Blast

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Cursed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Jail, Government

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Boston, Years

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

  Al Sharpton

  Doors, Inches, Force

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!

  Paul Virilio

  Kings, Years, Cities

  Source: ctheory.net

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• As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.

  Paul Laffoley

  Mother, School, Kids

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road.

  Yony Leyser

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.

  Daniel Gillies

  Hardship, Anvils, Taught

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• Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.

  Rachel Maddow

  East London, Rose, Black

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• You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fun, Grief, Jail

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.147, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Cells, People

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• The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

  Bud Grant

  Sports, Team, Tragedy

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• My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Night, Off The Beaten Path, Quirky

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• It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

  Martin Amis

  Language, Terrible, English Language

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• He who is afraid is half beaten.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Half

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• I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cancer, Book

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

  Gary Cole

  Military, War, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Struggle, Writing, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot go from being a secretary of nine-person real estate firm to the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world without having been tested over and over and over.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Real, Cancer

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Country, Sex, Couple

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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