#oppress

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will? ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#oppression #terrorism

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#does #enslaving #european #feel #free

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#checked #devised #efficiently #government #instead

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#congratulate #environment #fault #moral #more

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#before #black #ever #got #hold

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#albanians #fighters #freedom #know #living

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. ↗

— Amos Oz

#arab #between #case #children #conflict