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• Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

  Junius

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  Tags in Oppression

• I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.

  Khaled Hosseini

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  Tags in Afghanistan, Oppression
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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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  Tags in Government, Oppression, Read, Matter
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  When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Tags in Freedom, Oppression

• 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

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Liberty, Oppression, Own, Make, Reach, Freedom

• Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America ‘s leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

  Bob Riley

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  Tags in Nations, Oppression

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  Florynce Kennedy

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  Tags in System, Oppression, Unnecessary

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Oppression, Together, Trying

• An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

  George Haven Putnam

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  Tags in People, Enthusiast, Oppression

• If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

  Solomon King

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Oppression, Poor

• Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

  Slavoj Zizek

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• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  Simone Weil

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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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• As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

  Abram Fischer

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  Tags in Majority, Oppression, Hatred

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  Carl Rowan

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  Tags in Home, Oppression

• 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

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  Tags in Majority, Protect, Oppression, Principle, Minority, Mind

• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Generally, Oppression, People, Like, Tyranny, Mind

• 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

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  Tags in Oppression, Reading, Reason, Mind

• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  Victor Hugo

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  Tags in Oppression, Heaviest, Idleness