#suppress

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#attitudes #between #characteristics #differences #disastrous

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#because #criticism #easier #first #first law

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#carried #flag #i #i believe #i believe that

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #anyone #art #avoids #been

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#comes #ends #finds #history #long

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#just #money #opening #plain #republicans

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. ↗

— Liz Phair

#crowd #different #like #more #music

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#free #free speech #given #ignorant #instead

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#bank #brought #colonial #community #during