#oppression

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

— Paulo Freire

#oppression #community

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#break #country #god #oppression #records

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#clear #criminal #economic #effort #egyptian

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#hatred #increasing #majority #oppression #such

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. ↗

— Luke Treadaway

#fewer #growing #growing up #less #maybe

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

#bible #contained #crime #evils #injustice

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#idleness #oppressions