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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.


James Madison


#enemy #fighting #foreign #guise #land

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.


James Madison


#been #chequered #error #gained #humanity

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.


George Haven Putnam


#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.


Mitt Romney


#back #castro #cruelty #hand #invited

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.


Bo Gritz


#aided #believe #certain #congress #could

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

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.


Thomas Jefferson


#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.


Thomas Jefferson


#error #gained #humanity #indebted #oppression

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.


Randall Terry


#doing #everyone #eyes #god #law

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.


Audre Lorde


#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation






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