#oppress

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#care #change #community #contend #evangelical

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#aided #believe #certain #congress #could

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#am #energetic #friend #government #i

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#experience #go #got #i #i think

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

#dead #deep #does #expressive #hearts

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. ↗

— Jane Rule

#more #more and more #offered #oppression #our

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#end #feel #feel good #films #go