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oppression
«Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.»
«It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.»
Author: Carl T. Rowan
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
block, blocked, blocking, block out, discrimination, injustice, oppression, outraged, outrages, to become
«If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
fighting, foreign, guise, land, oppression, tyranny
«If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily»
Author: Stephen Fry
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
amount of money, grip, gripping, hospital, howls, offended, oppression, phrases, severely, tenuous, unoffending
«No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Oppression
| Keywords:
exorbitance, heavy, inflicted, lasting, legal, oppression, perversion, perversions
«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.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, mind reading, natural world, oppression, scholars, senseless, The Natural
«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).»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Right,
Voting
| Keywords:
individual rights, majorities, minorities, minority, oppression, precisely, protect, right to vote, smallest, subject to, the smallest, vote
«If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
hashish, oppression, rid, unbearable, wishes
«Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
conflict, crucial, evolve, method, nonviolence, oppression, resorting