#oppress

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). ↗

— Ayn Rand

#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

All oppression creates a state of war. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#oppression #state #war

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#citizens #cruel #democracy #exercising #majority

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#enable #force #his #impose #must

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#cruelty #everybody #i #interfere #now

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#been #books #championing #country #i

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #voice

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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