#oppress

We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that law and order can be a doublethink version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered, for whatever good reason, are freedoms lost. ↗

— Walter Cronkite preface to the

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In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#freedom

You can cage the singer but not the song. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#oppression #terrorism

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. ↗

— Paulo Freire

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The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor. ↗

— A.R. Bernard

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All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later. ↗

— Jessica Therrien

#future #oppression #present #william #oppression

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry #oppression

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars--a cage, so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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