#oppressed

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#before #black #ever #got #hold

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#aristocratic #atheism #being #crime #great

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems. ↗

— Aly Khan

#burdens #force #fortunately #historians #historic

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed. ↗

— Imran Khan

#authority #country #easily #feudal #most

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#depends #exertions #girl #his #how

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #beings #come #doing #face

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#allowed #am #burdens #equivalent #fair

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed. ↗

— Jan Hus

#before #cause #condemns #council #did

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. ↗

— Jose Marti

#build #cast #centuries #down #everything