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Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.


Gary Steiner


#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.


Derrick A. Bell


#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.


Arthur Henderson


#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.


Victor Hugo


#idleness #oppressions

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.


Bell Hooks


#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.


Nelson Mandela


#freedom #oppression #freedom

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#dislike #like #many #oppress #oppression

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.


Edmund Burke


#citizens #cruel #democracy #exercising #majority

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

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






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