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Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice. – Stacey Plaskett	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are a lot of people hurting in Elizabeth City, i ’m afraid. You know, I mean let’s be real. We talk about transparency, I ’m gon na be transparent. – Councilman Gabriel Adkins	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's not safe to drive in Minnesota while you're Black, the fact of the matter is there's so many of us who drive, and if we see police behind us, we're afraid, you know, we're trembling. That is a kind of terror that no citizen of the United States should ever have to face. It's constant. It's ever present. – Mike Elliott	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm still nervous now, i've been crying a lot recently. I'm most afraid that the( online harassment) would affect my real life. But it has -- my business has been attacked, and I have to take a break to take care of Xiao Meili, to digest and deal with all of this. – Xiao Meili	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
We have just started to return to full-scale operations. If the water is released, I’m afraid that we will go back to where we were. – Masao Takahagi	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think there are some real issues that have not been answered and I think these are legitimate concerns about the election, i'm not afraid of the truth, OK ? – Ron Johnson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I know my son was scared. He's afraid of the police. And I just( saw) and heard the fear in his voice. – Katie Wright	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I tried to call back three, four times. And then then girl that was with him answered the phone, and she said that they shot him and he was laying in the driver's seat unresponsive. i know my son was scared. He's afraid of the police. And I just( saw) and heard the fear in his voice. – Katie Wright	Found on CNN 3 years ago
' In the end, Xi Jinping is afraid of liberty and sovereignty and rules-based order. It's Xi Jinping enemy, we will know who wins this by which ideas dominate the next 10, 20, 40 years. Are they a set of Western ideas or are they a set of understandings that flow from the authoritarian regime in China ? – Mike Pompeo	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If you give in to a fool, he will say, This is because they are afraid of me. – Proverb	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine	added by Normando 3 years ago
She wasn’t afraid of a bold print, which I think is reflective of the bold advocacy she had for the rights of different marginalized groups like Asian Americans, Black Americans, and women, and also in my research, I found that there's a type of iris named after her, a beautiful deep purple iris, which is what inspired the print on her dress. – Barbie Signature Designer Carlyle Nuera	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I’m just thankful that we’re here and we’re warm. If we didn’t come here, I’m afraid we would still be at home. – Jenesis Heath	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I am afraid of what is out there. – Barry Morphew	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I’m afraid I can’t give you a definitive will there or will there not be the opportunity to take holidays this next year either at home or abroad. – Grant Shapps	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Do not be afraid of the vaccine. The vaccine is the best shield, we are betting as much as possible that all Peruvians can be vaccinated this year. – Francisco Sagasti	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Weaver had a health incident out of nowhere, and it delayed the publication of the story ...We had three young men going on record, they all dropped out. They were too afraid of the ramifications. – Ryan Girdusky	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My mother doesn’t know any funerals other than Catholic ones, and she is afraid of the new. – Katarzyna Lipka	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The first technology was good and I enjoyed the the book as a whole but the second tetralogy gradually seem to to ramble with sexual visuals but we're not very sane because as it got into the second book of that cat trilogy I suddenly realised that he wasn't really making much sense and I suddenly found myself being rather disappointed because the last thing I wanted to do was to find out that he was not mentally fit and although I'm not a psychologist professionally I've studied enough psychology to be able to tell when somebody is mentally unfit and I'm probably mentally unfit myself to some degree but not to that degree and impact has become a a celibate through an obsession of hygiene. I hope I'm wrong but I think I might well be right about him and I would like to know if there's any evidence that would gainsay what I have just said and will be left forever answer why he seemed to end up babbling rather than writing in that last book which incidentally I'm afraid I threw out because I didn't really like the back but I felt this feeling! But I knew I could never read it again! – Lawrence Durrell	added by anonymous 3 years ago
I'm always very afraid in any process where the conclusions start looking for the evidence to support them, and we're dealing with a lot of that in the last few days around her, the difficulty, I think -- and I think we have to say this quite plainly -- all hypotheses are on the table, and it is definitely too early to come to a conclusion of exactly where this virus started either within or without China. – Mike Ryan	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Maintaining restrictions seems most recommended to me. I am afraid of opening hotels and people travelling for late winter holiday. I absolutely do not recommend further opening of schools. – Adam Niedzielski	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
He was afraid they would break his glass. – Wendy Haddow	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.

– Stacey Plaskett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are a lot of people hurting in Elizabeth City, i ’m afraid. You know, I mean let’s be real. We talk about transparency, I ’m gon na be transparent.

– Councilman Gabriel Adkins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's not safe to drive in Minnesota while you're Black, the fact of the matter is there's so many of us who drive, and if we see police behind us, we're afraid, you know, we're trembling. That is a kind of terror that no citizen of the United States should ever have to face. It's constant. It's ever present.

– Mike Elliott

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm still nervous now, i've been crying a lot recently. I'm most afraid that the( online harassment) would affect my real life. But it has -- my business has been attacked, and I have to take a break to take care of Xiao Meili, to digest and deal with all of this.

– Xiao Meili

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

– Plato

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

We have just started to return to full-scale operations. If the water is released, I’m afraid that we will go back to where we were.

– Masao Takahagi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think there are some real issues that have not been answered and I think these are legitimate concerns about the election, i'm not afraid of the truth, OK ?

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I know my son was scared. He's afraid of the police. And I just( saw) and heard the fear in his voice.

– Katie Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I tried to call back three, four times. And then then girl that was with him answered the phone, and she said that they shot him and he was laying in the driver's seat unresponsive. i know my son was scared. He's afraid of the police. And I just( saw) and heard the fear in his voice.

– Katie Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

' In the end, Xi Jinping is afraid of liberty and sovereignty and rules-based order. It's Xi Jinping enemy, we will know who wins this by which ideas dominate the next 10, 20, 40 years. Are they a set of Western ideas or are they a set of understandings that flow from the authoritarian regime in China ?

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If you give in to a fool, he will say, This is because they are afraid of me.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

– William Shakespeare

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

– Thomas Paine

added by Normando
3 years ago

She wasn’t afraid of a bold print, which I think is reflective of the bold advocacy she had for the rights of different marginalized groups like Asian Americans, Black Americans, and women, and also in my research, I found that there's a type of iris named after her, a beautiful deep purple iris, which is what inspired the print on her dress.

– Barbie Signature Designer Carlyle Nuera

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I’m just thankful that we’re here and we’re warm. If we didn’t come here, I’m afraid we would still be at home.

– Jenesis Heath

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I am afraid of what is out there.

– Barry Morphew

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I’m afraid I can’t give you a definitive will there or will there not be the opportunity to take holidays this next year either at home or abroad.

– Grant Shapps

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Do not be afraid of the vaccine. The vaccine is the best shield, we are betting as much as possible that all Peruvians can be vaccinated this year.

– Francisco Sagasti

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Weaver had a health incident out of nowhere, and it delayed the publication of the story ...We had three young men going on record, they all dropped out. They were too afraid of the ramifications.

– Ryan Girdusky

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My mother doesn’t know any funerals other than Catholic ones, and she is afraid of the new.

– Katarzyna Lipka

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The first technology was good and I enjoyed the the book as a whole but the second tetralogy gradually seem to to ramble with sexual visuals but we're not very sane because as it got into the second book of that cat trilogy I suddenly realised that he wasn't really making much sense and I suddenly found myself being rather disappointed because the last thing I wanted to do was to find out that he was not mentally fit and although I'm not a psychologist professionally I've studied enough psychology to be able to tell when somebody is mentally unfit and I'm probably mentally unfit myself to some degree but not to that degree and impact has become a a celibate through an obsession of hygiene. I hope I'm wrong but I think I might well be right about him and I would like to know if there's any evidence that would gainsay what I have just said and will be left forever answer why he seemed to end up babbling rather than writing in that last book which incidentally I'm afraid I threw out because I didn't really like the back but I felt this feeling! But I knew I could never read it again!

– Lawrence Durrell

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I'm always very afraid in any process where the conclusions start looking for the evidence to support them, and we're dealing with a lot of that in the last few days around her, the difficulty, I think -- and I think we have to say this quite plainly -- all hypotheses are on the table, and it is definitely too early to come to a conclusion of exactly where this virus started either within or without China.

– Mike Ryan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Maintaining restrictions seems most recommended to me. I am afraid of opening hotels and people travelling for late winter holiday. I absolutely do not recommend further opening of schools.

– Adam Niedzielski

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

He was afraid they would break his glass.

– Wendy Haddow

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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