affirms

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Andrea Dworkin

There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree. Clement Attlee

By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man affirms little and doubt much. Panamanian Proverb