Words matter. These are the best Unwelcome Quotes from famous people such as David Olusoga, Martha MacCallum, Eric Alterman, Julia Ward Howe, Gertrude Stein, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was a child, growing up on a council estate in the northeast of England, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions of the late 1970s and 1980s to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain.
Early in my career, I was subjected to harassment in the form of some unwelcome suggestive comments and overtures.
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
A masterpiece… may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.
The ‘inability to have a dialogue’ is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one’s own past failings.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
There’s a little bit of protocol in the real world which is quite important. If you speak to me, we understand that we’ve entered into a social contract. But sound that you haven’t given permission to receive is noise, and generally unwelcome.
Many young people don’t vote because they feel unwelcome and irrelevant, and that’s the system’s fault… As much as MTV tries to get them to vote, politicians don’t include young voters because young voters don’t donate money.
No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can’t do that.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
Good riddance, Bin Laden – an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was prepared to throw them on a fire to keep himself warm.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping’s concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.
George was adamant his sexuality should be kept under wraps, which created a wholly unwelcome extra level of stress for him to manage.
Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.
We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
