#oppressed

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. ↗

— John Woolman

#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#any #despise #discovered #good #had

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#applaud #commitment #evangelicals #growing #i

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#city #commitment #committed #doing #eastern

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

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. ↗

— Eric Liu

#advocacy #anchor #babies #civic #comes

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#dark #described #oppressed #those #us

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. ↗

— Evo Morales

#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#around #being #bit #britain #claims