#oppress

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

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#experience #go #got #i #i think

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

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ↗

— Erica Jong

#opiate #oppressed

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

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

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#almost #always #consisting #cost #false