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Letter "O" » oppressed
«Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.»
«No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.»
«Revolution is the festival of the oppressed»
«Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.»
Author: Sheila Rowbotham
| Keywords:
oppressed
«Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
conditions, creature, heartless, opium, oppressed, sigh, soulless
«Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, / That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, / Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, / That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.»
«The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.»
«LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: / To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.»
«The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
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bosom, decency, oppressed, opulent, participation, persecuted, privileges, respectable, Rights and privileges
«Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems. I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal, an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
American values, burdened, bureaucratic, embark, embarked, embarking, embarks, embark on, era, family values, neighborhood, New Era, oppressed, reorder, responsive, restore, revitalize, revitalized, Social reform, stifled, uncaring, unresponsive, wasteful
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