#oppress

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#necessary #never #oppressed #strengths #themselves

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#life #oneself #only #oppressed #side

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#dark #described #oppressed #those #us

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#also #anyone #exercise #his #individuality

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. ↗

— Evo Morales

#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #build #equality #here #important

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#another #because #characteristic #commits #group

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#camps #citizens #concentration #countries #intern

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#going #just #much #oppression #sit

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#around #being #bit #britain #claims