#oppress

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#also #anyone #exercise #his #individuality

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. ↗

— Evo Morales

#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#awareness #capitalists #collusion #commit #country

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ↗

— Ayn Rand

#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

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

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#oppress #others #them #undervalue #will

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#individuals #institutionalized #oppression #oppressive #system

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#commitment #condemns #implies #lack #oppression