Oppression Quotes
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one`s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Bill Lovejoy
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the...
Ayn Rand
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression
James Madison
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy
James Madison
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We`ve got three drops of convict blood in us, because we are from Australia. We are used to oppression.
Leigh Whannell
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`God and Country` are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel
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I choose all my roles very carefully so that when my career is finished I will have covered all our recent history of oppression.
Vanessa Redgrave
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I look at it like that word, `nigger`, used to be a word of oppression. But that when I say it, it feels more like an act of freedom. For me to be able to say that unapologetically on television.
Dave Chappelle
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What about this idea of liberty? Not liberty for its own sake, but liberty for some larger end - not just freedom from oppression, but freedom of expression and worship. Freedom from want, and freedom from fear because when you are trapped by poverty, you...
Bono
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You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Allison Janse
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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
Alfredo Amezaga
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Where Tony Blair is, is propping up Bush in the continuation of oppression and injustice in the Middle East that is feeding the anger of the world.
Alan Labrosse
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
Alex Acker
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We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Andrea Peiro
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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
Alymer Letterman
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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
Anais Faraj
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Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
Andrew Beard
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This award is a victory for poor women; it`s a victory for all women, ... End oppression with education.
Anja Thiessen
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The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Amy Moore
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston
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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
Akitsugu Bando
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Shortly after news of Zarqawi`s death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.
Amarri Jackson
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People have got to get together and work together. I`m tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I`m always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
Harry Belafonte
