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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


#liberty #oppression #security #freedom

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

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.


Albert Camus


#oppression #dreams

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work


Sheryl WuDunn


#injustice #oppression #education

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


Paulo Freire


#oppression #community

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


#oppression

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


Emily Dickinson


#oppression

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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