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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

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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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

— Edmund Burke

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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. ↗

— Howard Carter

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I just think people should be able to express themselves. ↗

— Vince Carter

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An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #believe #doing #expression #freedom

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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