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Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There were many people complicit in this. There were many from the (military police), many from the armed forces complicit. – Adriano Machado/Reuters	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Democrats continue to try to deny I came forward about working for Joe Biden and being sexually harassed and assaulted in 1993 by simply suppressing my history with him, in my opinion, Ms. Elrod and those that protect Biden by not allowing a proper investigation are not only selling out all survivors for access to power but also are complicit. – Tara Reade	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed, critical race theory is being forced into our children's schools, it's being imposed into workplace trainings, and it's being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors and families. – President Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is no hiding place for war criminals. Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, working alongside our domestic and international partners, Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to hold accountable every person complicit in the commission of war crimes, torture, and other grave violations during the unprovoked conflict in Ukraine. – Merrick Garland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I felt like my silence was almost being complicit, and if more women had spoken up sooner, maybe we wouldn't be in this position... maybe I wouldn't have felt so alone, and I don't want anybody to feel the way that I felt during that time. – Taylor Esche	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I can say with absolute certainty : If Russia further invades Ukraine, United States together with our allies and partners will impose significant and unprecedented economic costs, we will impose far-reaching financial sanctions and export controls. We will target Russia's financial institutions and key industries. And we will target those who are complicit and those who aid and abet this unprovoked invasion. – Kamala Harris	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need accountability for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler because they were complicit in this, so the media needs to start doing their job. – Rick Scott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In a society that takes great pleasure in the punishment of women who break the rules, it should come as no surprise that each suspect in this case has been acquitted, after today's verdict, we may ask, who killed her ? Nobody, it seems. In accepting that answer, we are all complicit in the crime of failing to protect women. – Sanam Maher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The building of lies to protect Pope Benedict has just collapsed with a crash. Benedict was complicit in the abuse of numerous victims after 1980, victims of Priest X. – Matthias Katsch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think we all respect the game and the integrity of the game far too much to be complicit in something like that. – Brandon Staley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You ca n’t really talk about the people without talking about the system, everybody has culpability in this … the viewers, the network, the women on the show. We’re all complicit. – Heather Thomson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said. – Kamilah Moore	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear. – Belarus Julie Fisher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A lot of people make the argument Serra had goodintentions —of course, we don’t know that for sure because all of our accounts are from a Spanish perspective — but our view is that he was complicit in the mission system that killed and enslaved a lot of native people, and we can’t just go around honoring everyone who had good intentions with a high school name, especially if they caused so much damage. – Emma Taila	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For far too long companies like Nike and Apple and Amazon and Coca-Cola were using forced labor. They were benefiting from forced labor or sourcing from suppliers that were suspected of using forced labor, these companies, sadly, were making all of us complicit in these crimes. – Marco Rubio	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's of violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear. – Julie Fisher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
By financially supporting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, both American and other global corporations are complicit in whitewashing the ongoing genocide against Chinese ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang region, repression against their own people, the attempted coverup of the COVID-19 pandemic, media censorship, the repression of democratic rights in Hong Kong and Tibet, and threats against the free democracy in Taiwan. – Mike Walz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is the same city in Tulsa Negroes that was complicit at best, a co-conspirator at worst, even though it's been 100 years, if it was wrong in Tulsa Negroes, it's still wrong in 2021. There's no expiration date on morality. Wrong doesn't expire. – The Rev. Robert Turner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are state lawmakers who have been co-conspirators in these lies, in questioning the outcome of the election, trump lost, and our local lawmakers in Wisconsin Capitol have not been telling that truth. And as a result, maybe they didn't send anybody to DC on a bus. Maybe only a few of them were down there that we saw on social media, but they're complicit in this terror. – Joanna McClinton	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
Especially as a white person, I benefit from the status quo, and so not showing up and actively working to deconstruct institutional racism makes me complicit. – Michael Drummond	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Mr. Floyd died in our hands and so I see that as being complicit, silence and inaction, you're complicit. If there was one solitary voice that would have intervened... that's what I would have hoped for. – Chief Arradondo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We will no longer be complicit in government policy of booking bleeding, vomiting women on interminable ferry journeys, putting their health at serious risk. – Ann Furedi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were many people complicit in this. There were many from the (military police), many from the armed forces complicit.

– Adriano Machado/Reuters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Democrats continue to try to deny I came forward about working for Joe Biden and being sexually harassed and assaulted in 1993 by simply suppressing my history with him, in my opinion, Ms. Elrod and those that protect Biden by not allowing a proper investigation are not only selling out all survivors for access to power but also are complicit.

– Tara Reade

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed, critical race theory is being forced into our children's schools, it's being imposed into workplace trainings, and it's being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors and families.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no hiding place for war criminals. Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, working alongside our domestic and international partners, Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to hold accountable every person complicit in the commission of war crimes, torture, and other grave violations during the unprovoked conflict in Ukraine.

– Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt like my silence was almost being complicit, and if more women had spoken up sooner, maybe we wouldn't be in this position... maybe I wouldn't have felt so alone, and I don't want anybody to feel the way that I felt during that time.

– Taylor Esche

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can say with absolute certainty : If Russia further invades Ukraine, United States together with our allies and partners will impose significant and unprecedented economic costs, we will impose far-reaching financial sanctions and export controls. We will target Russia's financial institutions and key industries. And we will target those who are complicit and those who aid and abet this unprovoked invasion.

– Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need accountability for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler because they were complicit in this, so the media needs to start doing their job.

– Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In a society that takes great pleasure in the punishment of women who break the rules, it should come as no surprise that each suspect in this case has been acquitted, after today's verdict, we may ask, who killed her ? Nobody, it seems. In accepting that answer, we are all complicit in the crime of failing to protect women.

– Sanam Maher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The building of lies to protect Pope Benedict has just collapsed with a crash. Benedict was complicit in the abuse of numerous victims after 1980, victims of Priest X.

– Matthias Katsch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we all respect the game and the integrity of the game far too much to be complicit in something like that.

– Brandon Staley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You ca n’t really talk about the people without talking about the system, everybody has culpability in this … the viewers, the network, the women on the show. We’re all complicit.

– Heather Thomson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said.

– Kamilah Moore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear.

– Belarus Julie Fisher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of people make the argument Serra had goodintentions —of course, we don’t know that for sure because all of our accounts are from a Spanish perspective — but our view is that he was complicit in the mission system that killed and enslaved a lot of native people, and we can’t just go around honoring everyone who had good intentions with a high school name, especially if they caused so much damage.

– Emma Taila

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For far too long companies like Nike and Apple and Amazon and Coca-Cola were using forced labor. They were benefiting from forced labor or sourcing from suppliers that were suspected of using forced labor, these companies, sadly, were making all of us complicit in these crimes.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It was a very different world, and there is room for us to do an awful lot with a new executive order. That is an effort that is underway, our goal remains that we are at, we're focused on promoting accountability for those individuals and entities who are responsible for, or are complicit in the regime's of violent repression of civil society and for those human rights abuses. So we will continue to bring new authorities and new tools of pressure to bear.

– Julie Fisher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

By financially supporting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, both American and other global corporations are complicit in whitewashing the ongoing genocide against Chinese ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang region, repression against their own people, the attempted coverup of the COVID-19 pandemic, media censorship, the repression of democratic rights in Hong Kong and Tibet, and threats against the free democracy in Taiwan.

– Mike Walz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is the same city in Tulsa Negroes that was complicit at best, a co-conspirator at worst, even though it's been 100 years, if it was wrong in Tulsa Negroes, it's still wrong in 2021. There's no expiration date on morality. Wrong doesn't expire.

– The Rev. Robert Turner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are state lawmakers who have been co-conspirators in these lies, in questioning the outcome of the election, trump lost, and our local lawmakers in Wisconsin Capitol have not been telling that truth. And as a result, maybe they didn't send anybody to DC on a bus. Maybe only a few of them were down there that we saw on social media, but they're complicit in this terror.

– Joanna McClinton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

Especially as a white person, I benefit from the status quo, and so not showing up and actively working to deconstruct institutional racism makes me complicit.

– Michael Drummond

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Mr. Floyd died in our hands and so I see that as being complicit, silence and inaction, you're complicit. If there was one solitary voice that would have intervened... that's what I would have hoped for.

– Chief Arradondo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We will no longer be complicit in government policy of booking bleeding, vomiting women on interminable ferry journeys, putting their health at serious risk.

– Ann Furedi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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