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Letter "O" » oppression
«[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| Keywords:
back room, bigotry, birthplace, hatched, hatches, hatching, oppression, persecution, plots, schemes, sinister
«He who allows oppression shares the crime.»
«Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.»
Author: James Cone
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Anger,
Humor
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«America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
| About:
America and Americans,
Politicians
| Keywords:
guarantees, looked, oppression, politician, protection, scum, the country
«But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Oppression
| Keywords:
commotion, gathers, oppression, seditious
«Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
dislike, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, oppression
«All oppression creates a state of war.»
«He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
establishes, guard, liberty, oppression, precedent, secure, securing, violates, violating
«For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; / In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
conceiving, departing, from the heart, iniquities, multiplied, oppression, revolt, testifies, testify, testifying, transgressing, transgressions, uttering
«He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong»
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