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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. -- Malcolm X
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. -- Dick Dale
Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener. -- Sloane Crosley
Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world. -- Judith Martin
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine. -- Lou Ferrigno
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion. -- Eugene Jarecki
Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely. -- Joe Moore
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. -- Kate Chopin
If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable. -- Don Nickles
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us. -- Gary Bauer
Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement. -- Bharati Mukherjee
If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia. -- Gary Bauer
When are you at your most defenseless? -- Anthony Horowitz
With a kiss you can strip me defenseless. -- Belinda Carlisle
like an unrelenting jackhammer on a defenseless city street. -- Richard Anhur
When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look. -- Julie Anne Peters
It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them. -- Rachel Field
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers. -- Rick Warren
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. -- Arthur C. Clarke
How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless. -- Ted Nugent
Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on." Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies. -- Nalini Singh
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. -- Jacobo Timerman
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target -- Richard Wright
Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless. -- Vladimir Lenin
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. -- Immortal Technique
Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people. -- George Blake
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. -- Michel Foucault
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. -- Queen Victoria
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. -- Sylvia Plath
I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power. -- Tupac Shakur
Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns. -- Stephen Colbert
My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best. -- Katharine Hepburn
Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen. -- John Waters
Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless. -- Nayan Chanda
And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I wonâ??t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas -- Kelley Armstrong
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. -- Sigmund Freud
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends. -- Alanis Morissette
He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all. -- Sophie Jordan
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public. -- Agnes Repplier
The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. -- Melina Marchetta
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens. -- Edward V. Long
Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers? -- Sam Harris
I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless. -- Michael Scheuer
Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women. -- Fannie Barrier Williams
Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies. -- Groucho Marx

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