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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
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. -- Simone Weil
Oppression makes a poor country. -- William Penn
How shall Integrity face Oppression? -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Oppression makes a wise man mad. -- Frederick Douglass
Oppression is the essence of power. -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. -- Andrew Solomon
Oppression is more easily endured than insult. -- Junius
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression won't win, the light comes from within. -- Linda McCartney
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. -- Harry Belafonte
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. -- Gloria Steinem
Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. -- Idries Shah
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches. -- Thomas Paine
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. -- Margaret Atwood
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. -- John F. Kennedy
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. -- Nelson Mandela
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other? -- Benazir Bhutto
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. -- Rita Mae Brown
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. -- Robin Morgan
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. -- Cherrie Moraga
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. -- Edmund Burke
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. -- Phillis Wheatley
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. -- Alva Myrdal
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems." -- Alva Myrdal
P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness. -- Paulo Freire
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
We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression. -- Akbar Ganji
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. -- Thomas Paine
Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner. -- Tim Gordon
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die! -- Robert Burns
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
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 individual). -- Ayn Rand
All oppression creates a state of war. -- Simone de Beauvoir
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- Emily Dickinson
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -- Booker T. Washington
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. -- Sam Houston
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. -- Anna Sewell
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. -- Carl T. Rowan
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. -- Beverly Daniel Tatum
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering. -- Dorothee Solle
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
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. -- H. L. Mencken
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. -- Confucius
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. -- John Henrik Clarke
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. -- King Solomon
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. -- Oliver Tambo
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. -- Randall Terry
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. -- Kate Millett
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. -- William Penn
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. -- Thabo Mbeki
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. -- Malcolm X
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. -- Malcolm X
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units. -- Paul Di Filippo
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. -- Mahmoud Darwish
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
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -- Nelson Mandela
Resist any form of oppression. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Resistance to oppression is second nature. -- Seneca the Younger
Competition is merely the absence of oppression. -- Frederic Bastiat
Logic has nothing to do with oppression. -- Gloria Steinem
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression. -- Amanda Lindhout
He who allows oppression shares the crime. -- Desiderius Erasmus
One writes fables in periods of oppression. -- Italo Calvino
...oppression is as American as apple pie... -- Audre Lorde
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. -- Assata Shakur
One law for lion and ox is oppression. -- William Blake
standing in line is a form of oppression -- John Green
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong. -- Bryan Cranston
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. -- George W. Bush
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed. -- Umar
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom. -- Jose Marti
The root of oppression is the loss of memory. -- Paula Gunn Allen
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. -- Daniele Bolelli
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov
... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation. -- Susie Orbach
Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide -- Gary Haugen
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression! -- Bobby Seale
I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand. -- Hugh Hefner
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. -- H. L. Mencken
Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand. -- Tim Hawkins
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. -- bell hooks
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice -- Edward Coke
Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression. -- Farah Diba
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. -- Charles Dickens
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression. -- Ken Wilber
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. -- Tacitus
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child -- Maria Montessori
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations. -- Vladimir Lenin
The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor, -- Jon Stewart
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. -- Anna Lindh
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand. -- Jimmy Carter
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me! -- Thomas Otway
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression. -- Vladimir Sorokin
Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. -- James Madison
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. -- Ezra Pound
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. -- Fatos Nano
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. -- Helen Keller
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. -- Ernest Hemingway
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression. -- Vaclav Havel
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. -- Lerone Bennett, Jr.
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. -- Adrienne Rich
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. -- H. Rap Brown

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