#oppress

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #castro #cruelty #hand #invited

All oppression creates a state of war. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#oppression #state #war

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#care #change #community #contend #evangelical

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#error #gained #humanity #indebted #oppression

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#free #give #life #lives #making

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#become #block #discrimination #easier #half