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The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.
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.
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
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.
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal fates.
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.
As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible
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.
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.