#oppressive

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#individuals #institutionalized #oppression #oppressive #system

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ↗

— James Hillman

#about #american #american tradition #century #christian

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. ↗

— James Madison

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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#checked #devised #efficiently #government #instead

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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