#oppress

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

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#concerned #i #oppression #poor

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#aristocratic #atheism #being #crime #great

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#aided #believe #certain #congress #could

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#exploited #federation #fulfil #get #help

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ↗

— Erica Jong

#opiate #oppressed

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

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#cheap #continue #famine #her #human