#oppress

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

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

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems. ↗

— Aly Khan

#burdens #force #fortunately #historians #historic

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed. ↗

— Imran Khan

#authority #country #easily #feudal #most

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

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#been #broadly #created #culture #entire

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant. ↗

— Max Weber

#morality-without-religion #oppression #politics #tyranny #religion