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I was born and grew up in a dissident family. – Reverend Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Jahromiis a key player in Iran’s brutal war against dissident voices and plays a key role in repression and censorship … Jahromi also served seven years, from 2002 to 2009, inIran’s Ministry of Intelligence, one of the most brutal agencies under the regime and responsible for torture and execution of journalists, ethnic and sexual minorities, and other dissident voices … anddespite all this( including being sanctioned by the U.S. for internet censorship,) UNIDO sees fit to respond to ? and indeed implement ? this man’s request. – Daniel Roth	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The regime has launched these baseless allegations against her in an attempt to distract the international community from its abysmal treatment of the Cuban people, especially the ongoing arbitrary detention of dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The minute we go into that area in a way that looks like checkpoints, or supporting other agencies to staff checkpoints, we become a target for those dissident Republicans. – Simon Byrne	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are beginning a joint recuperation of spaces where torture and killings of dissident men and women were carried out in those years. – Deputy Interior Secretary Alejandro Encinas	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents, now they are targeting a dissident's mother as they try to gag his outspoken criticism. This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence. – Brad Adams	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Dissident republicans remain a severe threat and at any given time a terrorist attack from them is highly likely. – Ireland Minister Theresa Villiers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. – Václav Havel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility. – John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I was born and grew up in a dissident family.

– Reverend Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Jahromiis a key player in Iran’s brutal war against dissident voices and plays a key role in repression and censorship … Jahromi also served seven years, from 2002 to 2009, inIran’s Ministry of Intelligence, one of the most brutal agencies under the regime and responsible for torture and execution of journalists, ethnic and sexual minorities, and other dissident voices … anddespite all this( including being sanctioned by the U.S. for internet censorship,) UNIDO sees fit to respond to ? and indeed implement ? this man’s request.

– Daniel Roth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The regime has launched these baseless allegations against her in an attempt to distract the international community from its abysmal treatment of the Cuban people, especially the ongoing arbitrary detention of dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The minute we go into that area in a way that looks like checkpoints, or supporting other agencies to staff checkpoints, we become a target for those dissident Republicans.

– Simon Byrne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are beginning a joint recuperation of spaces where torture and killings of dissident men and women were carried out in those years.

– Deputy Interior Secretary Alejandro Encinas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents, now they are targeting a dissident's mother as they try to gag his outspoken criticism. This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence.

– Brad Adams

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Dissident republicans remain a severe threat and at any given time a terrorist attack from them is highly likely.

– Ireland Minister Theresa Villiers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

– Václav Havel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

– John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

– Kingman Brewster, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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