#oppression

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#break #country #god #oppression #records

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#center #give #heroes #human #human rights

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#clear #criminal #economic #effort #egyptian

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. ↗

— Bram Fischer

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