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deprive
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Black Like Me
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- She offered, as her part of the project, her willingness to lead, with our three children, the unsatisfactory family life of a household deprived of husband and father.†
deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
- The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury.†
- The whites all got off," I said, unable to believe he really meant to deprive us of rest-room privileges.†
- I sat in the monochrome gloom of dusk, scarcely believing that in this year of freedom any man could deprive another of anything so basic as the need to quench thirst or use the rest room.†
- My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men's souls, could deprive humans of rights they unhesitatingly accord their livestock.†
- This is how the white man can say, "They live like dogs," never realizing why they must, to save themselves, shout, get drunk, shake the hip, pour pleasures into bellies deprived of happiness.†
deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
- You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and less leisure, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro.†
- Deprive a man of any contact with the pleasures of the spirit and he'll fall completely into those of the flesh.†
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- "But we don't deprive you people of the 'pleasures of the spirit,' " he said.†
- You deprive a man of educational opportunities and he'll have no knowledge of the great civilizing influences of art, history, literature and philosophy.†
- But most are deprived of education.†
deprived = lacking things most people enjoy
- The Negro's lower scholastic showing springs not from racial default, but from being deprived of cultural and educational advantages by the whites.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(deprive) to take away or keep from having
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)