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Empty beer bottles, Crushed packets of Marlboro, Graffiti on stairwells, Blond stubble on heads stuffed with hate, Me, with my circumcised brown vision, Icy blood of undefined pedigree, I am marked for slaughter In the abattoir of the Gulag. I cower behind the Swastika Chained to my door. – Ashok Niyogi	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. – Ray Bradbury	added by jessr.85566 2 years ago
[Americans] come back to always having that hope, no matter how difficult it is since the birth of our nation. Whether it was the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, an assassination decade of the '60s, or 9/11, we always had hope and we had presidents who inspired us, americans do not cower, whether it's the Nazis or the terrorists or the China virus. We have hope. We have strength. And when you have hope and strength, you have peace. But this president doesn't know what hope is. – Rey Del Rio/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation. – Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's important to not let the record go uncorrected and to continue to speak the truth, it's something I definitely do at my peril, both politically and otherwise, but I didn't run for office to seek the easy path and I'm certainly not going to cower away from what I think is an important responsibility. – Pete Meijer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It comes to you, New Hampshire, to decide, when there's this much fear, when there is this much on the line, do we crouch down, do we cower, do we back up, or do we fight back? – Elizabeth Warren	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When the shelling starts, we rush to cower in the makeshift basements of our home, the power supply gets cut and we wait in the darkness with our terrified children, waiting for it be over. – Maroofa Bibi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I’ve decided to do is not cower, i’m a free American. I can do what I want with my possessions. An attorney for Martin's family declined to specifically comment on Zimmerman, but did issue a statement to Fox 35 Orlando Wednesday. – George Zimmerman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This is a time for America to lead, not cower. – Hillary Clinton	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can’t cower away from certain things, i feel like a lot of people don’t like the controversy. They don’t like to discuss [religion]. They don’t like to debate; I love that stuff. If it wasn't for the fact that my family was under a close scrutiny I would probably want to run for [political office] someday or something. I am always the one at dinner parties where people are like ‘don't talk about religion or politics’ and I’m like ‘can we please talk about religion or politics?’ I love debating and I love hearing other perspectives on everything. – Melissa Joan Hart	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Children are dying from lack of food and medicines in parts of Syria just a few kilometers from warehouses that are piled high with aid, families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes. – Misty Buswell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes. – Misty Buswell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a militant organization that wants to use this election cycle to be disruptive. It’s wrong and the more Democrats cower to them, the worse it gets. – Brad Blakeman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The solution is not going to be to ... cower in fear and just kind of unplug yourself from life, it's going to be more about saying, 'OK, this is an opportunity where I should be educated in how to use the technology.' Technology is not the problem. The problem is our misuse or lack of education behind it. – David Ryan Polgar	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you're attacked ... you have every right to defend yourself, there's no duty to retreat, there's no duty to hide or cower. You have the right to leave. – Matthew Fletcher	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Empty beer bottles, Crushed packets of Marlboro, Graffiti on stairwells, Blond stubble on heads stuffed with hate, Me, with my circumcised brown vision, Icy blood of undefined pedigree, I am marked for slaughter In the abattoir of the Gulag. I cower behind the Swastika Chained to my door.

– Ashok Niyogi

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

– Ray Bradbury

added by jessr.85566
2 years ago

[Americans] come back to always having that hope, no matter how difficult it is since the birth of our nation. Whether it was the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, an assassination decade of the '60s, or 9/11, we always had hope and we had presidents who inspired us, americans do not cower, whether it's the Nazis or the terrorists or the China virus. We have hope. We have strength. And when you have hope and strength, you have peace. But this president doesn't know what hope is.

– Rey Del Rio/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation.

– Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's important to not let the record go uncorrected and to continue to speak the truth, it's something I definitely do at my peril, both politically and otherwise, but I didn't run for office to seek the easy path and I'm certainly not going to cower away from what I think is an important responsibility.

– Pete Meijer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It comes to you, New Hampshire, to decide, when there's this much fear, when there is this much on the line, do we crouch down, do we cower, do we back up, or do we fight back?

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the shelling starts, we rush to cower in the makeshift basements of our home, the power supply gets cut and we wait in the darkness with our terrified children, waiting for it be over.

– Maroofa Bibi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What I’ve decided to do is not cower, i’m a free American. I can do what I want with my possessions. An attorney for Martin's family declined to specifically comment on Zimmerman, but did issue a statement to Fox 35 Orlando Wednesday.

– George Zimmerman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is a time for America to lead, not cower.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can’t cower away from certain things, i feel like a lot of people don’t like the controversy. They don’t like to discuss [religion]. They don’t like to debate; I love that stuff. If it wasn't for the fact that my family was under a close scrutiny I would probably want to run for [political office] someday or something. I am always the one at dinner parties where people are like ‘don't talk about religion or politics’ and I’m like ‘can we please talk about religion or politics?’ I love debating and I love hearing other perspectives on everything.

– Melissa Joan Hart

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Children are dying from lack of food and medicines in parts of Syria just a few kilometers from warehouses that are piled high with aid, families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes.

– Misty Buswell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes.

– Misty Buswell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a militant organization that wants to use this election cycle to be disruptive. It’s wrong and the more Democrats cower to them, the worse it gets.

– Brad Blakeman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The solution is not going to be to ... cower in fear and just kind of unplug yourself from life, it's going to be more about saying, 'OK, this is an opportunity where I should be educated in how to use the technology.' Technology is not the problem. The problem is our misuse or lack of education behind it.

– David Ryan Polgar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you're attacked ... you have every right to defend yourself, there's no duty to retreat, there's no duty to hide or cower. You have the right to leave.

– Matthew Fletcher

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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