Huma Qureshi

If a woman is saying something out loud, she is asking for help, and you have no business to character assassinating her. You have to reach out to her and help her and protect her, and I think we need to protect our women, and we need to protect our children.

Indian Actress

Angela Davis

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

American Activist

Jedediah Bila

Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don't have to agree with everything he says, but you do have to defend his right to say it.

American Entertainer

Harry S Truman

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

American President

Suge Knight

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

American Producer

John Lewis

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

American Politician

Ishita Dutta

It is easy for people to sit behind their laptops and assassinate somebody's character.

Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

British Statesman

Sean Young

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

American Actress

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

Assassinate often implies a political motive or context.

Political Act

Targets are usually well-known figures like politicians or celebrities.

High-profile Target

Assassination involves careful planning, not a spontaneous act.

Premeditated Action

Used metaphorically, it means severely damaging someone's reputation.

Figurative Use

This use of 'assassinate' targets a person's social standing or honor.

Reputation Focus

It suggests the damage done is severe and potentially irreparable.

Intense Damage

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 Because of the timing of his death so soon after the coup, rumors swirled that he had died of sadness or even been assassinated, but the hospital recorded his cause of death as cancer. Today, Neruda’s lines are recited at protests and marches worldwide. Much like his life,

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 what I'm saying at all what I'm saying is she could have Learner's her sense was always that her job was to love and protect her husband but when the apparition of assassination came onto the scene it became so real and so palpable and it guided almost

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 flawless in terms of its research so a couple of months after the assassination attempt all the doctors and all the nurses that were involved in save you on Elena's life they put together their own little mini documentary they reenacted

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 withstand despite great nonviolent resistance and by women especially the brutal takeover of the city by Isis Isis deliberately targeted civil society and it assassinated many activists and the activists that have managed to flee rah

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 Bernice My heart is a little heavy right now, because I was that six-year-old. I was five years old when my father was assassinated. And he did change the world. But the tragedy is that we didn't hear

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 shortly before he was assassinated, King said, "The person who picks up our garbage is, in the final analysis, as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his job, diseases are rampant.

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 look a fresh look about his assassination that rocked the country of the world to its core the story is riveting and personal and idyllic at the same time it actually is the stuff of Shakespeare

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 for us and it's you know it's important and and people believed him you know and they and they loved him he would be assassination affected him in a rather profound way I think he became really

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