#oppress

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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.


Alexander Mackenzie


#any #each #nothing #oppression #other

لم يعد يدهشني الظلم ولا الغباء ولا الخوف ولا العناد ولا الجحود ولكن سأبقى دائمًا مندهشًا أمام قدرة الإنسان الفريدة على النسيان. آفة حارتنا.


بلال فضل


#oppression #nature

Nos instruyen y preparan en la juventud para una profesión, para cumplir los deberes ciudadanos, para el servicio militar, nos enseñaban las reglas del aseo, a comportarnos bien y hasta a comprender lo bello (esto último no tanto). Pero la instrucción, la educación, la experiencia, no nos preparan en absoluto para la gran prueba de nuestra vida: para el arresto por nada y para el sumario sobre nada.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


#totalitarianism #totalitarianism

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.


Wally Lamb


#oppression #defeat

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.


Audre Lorde


#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.


Georg Buchner


#blood #count #eyes #gang #lend

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.


Hillary Clinton


#clear #criminal #economic #effort #egyptian

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.


Richard Cobden


#aristocratic #been #commerce #ever #mode

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?


Christine de Pizan


#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.


Ted Cruz


#because #blessing #child #easily #enormous