#oppress

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#ask #because #cannot #educate #educated

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#america #american #among #bond #democracy

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#cruelty #everybody #i #interfere #now

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #voice

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#home #inside #north #oppressed #outside

Nos instruyen y preparan en la juventud para una profesión, para cumplir los deberes ciudadanos, para el servicio militar, nos enseñaban las reglas del aseo, a comportarnos bien y hasta a comprender lo bello (esto último no tanto). Pero la instrucción, la educación, la experiencia, no nos preparan en absoluto para la gran prueba de nuestra vida: para el arresto por nada y para el sumario sobre nada. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#totalitarianism #totalitarianism

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#government #nothing #oppressive #out #turns

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure. ↗

— George W. Bush

#america #american #bringing #delivering #deployed