#suppression

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#education #fire #suppression #education

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. ↗

— King Hussein I

#acts #against #condition #exploit #extremists

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #encroachment #feminism