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Letter "O" » oppressing
«I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them»
Author: Robin Morgan
| About:
Hate,
Politics
| Keywords:
class feeling, hating, oppressed, oppressing, the class, viable
«In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
oppressed, oppressing, rebellious, resigned, situate, situated, situating
«Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Goodness
| Keywords:
determine, do good, oppress, oppresses, oppressing
«STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.REG: What?!LORETTA: It's my right as a man.JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?LORETTA: I want to have babies.REG: You want to have babies?!LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.REG: But... you can't have babies.LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!»
Author: Monty Python
| Keywords:
babies, box, Call Me, foetus, gestate, I Want You, Judith, kept woman, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, Out of the Womb, womb
«Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
dislike, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, oppression
«He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
oppress, oppresses, oppressing, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
«He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
oppressing
«Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.»
«Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
demanded, freedom, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, oppressor, voluntarily
«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
affection, chivalry, curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, empty, finds, grievance, grievances, higher power, lance, lances, lancing, liberty, maiden, name, nobility, nurse, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, protection, protections, pure, staying power, sword, tyrant
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