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• 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

• 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

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

  V. S. Naipaul

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  Tags in Oppression

• Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

  Junius

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  Tags in 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Oppression

• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  Tacitus

  Tags in Resist, Oppression

• 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

• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Oppression, Colonial, Road, Struggle

• 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

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Authority, Oppression, Inflicted, Heavy

• The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

  Hosea Ballou

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  Tags in Oppression, Rarely, Opinion, Freedom

• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

  Confucius

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  Tags in Oppression, Feel, Sorrow

• Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Tags in Sect, Faction, Oppression, Persecution

• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

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  Tags in Rebellion, Oppression, Tyranny, Freedom