#oppress

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cruelty #music #oppression #simple #soft

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#enemy #establishes #even #guard #himself

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. ↗

— James K. Polk

#great #just #majorities #minorities #object

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

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