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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.
It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
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Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment.
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.