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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. -- Mary Astell
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. -- Warren Farrell
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. -- Cesar Chavez
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. -- Frederick Douglass
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect. -- Anne Bronte
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. -- Jaron Lanier
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. -- Samuel Johnson
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others. -- Nelson Mandela
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. -- Imelda Marcos
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. -- John Henrik Clarke
True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela -- Israelmore Ayivor
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. -- Evo Morales
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. -- Jack Kingston
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges. -- Oliver Ellsworth
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. -- Charles B. Rangel
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. -- Frederick Douglass
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women. -- Sushmita Banerjee
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. -- William Hague
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress. -- Terry Eagleton
Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone. -- Simon Baron-Cohen
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority -- Richard Stallman
God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others. -- Jim George
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. -- Alexander Pope
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? -- J. K. Rowling
Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress. -- Vanna Bonta
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. -- Jack London
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. -- Homer
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him. -- Ben Jonson
Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you. -- Randolph Bourne
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like. -- Veronica Roth
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. -- Ovid
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. -- Alexandre Dumas
To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts. -- Pope Francis
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. -- Charlotte Bronte
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. -- Eric Hoffer
Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds. -- Ivan Panin
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. -- John Dryden
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority -- James Fenimore Cooper
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. -- James F. Cooper
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. -- Robert Herrick
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done. -- Rosa Parks
I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people. -- George Mason
If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions. -- Gregory A. Boyd
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too. -- Barack Obama
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. -- Louisa May Alcott
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. -- H. L. Mencken
Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many. -- Alexander Hamilton
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress. -- Albert Camus
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. -- James Madison
Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress. -- Matthew Henry
How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character! -- Israelmore Ayivor
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela... -- Israelmore Ayivor
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress. -- Frederick the Great
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us. -- Dallas Willard
Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have. -- H. L. Mencken
Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them. -- Mutabaruka
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie. -- Leo Tolstoy
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. -- Paulo Freire
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. -- Robert Mugabe
It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread. -- Pablo Alvarado
We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty. -- Malala Yousafzai
The human face shines as it speaks of thingsNear itself, thoughts full of dreams.The human face shines like a dark skyAs it speaks of those things that oppress the living -- Robert Bly
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice. -- George Washington
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization. -- Marcus Garvey
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating. -- John Ruskin
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have. -- Billie Jean King
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature. -- James Madison
The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property. -- Frederic Bastiat
Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives. -- Brennan Manning
The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him. -- Malcolm X
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others. -- Desmond Tutu

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