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#suppression

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Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.


Christine de Pizan


#education #empowerment #inequality #knowledge #men

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.


James Bovard


#been #being #concern #conservative #conservatives

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

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.


King Hussein I


#acts #against #condition #exploit #extremists

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.


Rush Limbaugh


#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.


Gerrit Smith


#man #mercy #never #noble #powers

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.


Criss Jami


#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.


Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon


#positive-vs-negative #suppression #anger

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #encroachment #feminism

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.


Iain Pears


#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge






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