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Tag Name "Oppression" (514)

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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
Umar
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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
Rose Kennedy
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul
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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav Havel
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Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
Van Jones
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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
Anna Lindh
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The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide, and the new and powerful tools of information provide us with more opportunities than ever to react and act.
Anna Lindh
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If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
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Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of us and them creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.
Marc Bekoff
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
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...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
Angelina Grimke
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Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
Angela Merkel
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The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.
Audre Lorde
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
Andrew Solomon
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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
Andrew Jackson
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin
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Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
Vladimir Lenin
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the oprichnina - the system of oppression.
Vladimir Sorokin
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Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.
Andrea Suarez Paz
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The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
Andrea Dworkin
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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
Elie Wiesel
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There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
Amir Butler
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