#oppress

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

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

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

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

#dead #deep #does #expressive #hearts

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

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#enable #force #his #impose #must

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#allowed #class #decide #every #few

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#free #nation #nations #oppresses #other

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely