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My life of sin among people I'm sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool. — Thomm Quackenbush

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them.
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. — Paulo Freire

We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression. — Hillary Clinton

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear. — Raif Badawi

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people. — Mike Fitzpatrick

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. — George W. Bush

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint. — Abraham Lincoln

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. — Ameen Rihani

It'll be the same old oppression under a brand-new name . . . and your people will suffer like never before. — Kiera Cass

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. — Nelson Mandela

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it. — Molly Crabapple

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Emily Dickinson

Not only were people to be liberated from socio-political and economic oppression, but from theological oppression as well. — James A. Maxey

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. — Hosea Ballou

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice. — Carla H. Krueger

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. — Errico Malatesta

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke

... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation. — Brian Clevinger

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like. — Veronica Roth

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them. — Andrea Dworkin

I'm not interested in
who suffered the most.
I'm interested in
people getting over it. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression. — Edward Snowden

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression — John Locke

We do not require man's religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world. — Thomm Quackenbush

What dost thou know of suffering and oppression! I and my people know, but not thou. — Mark Twain

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown

Oppression doesn't make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we'll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable. — Victor LaValle

White people covered the earth like lice. — Louise Erdrich

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Women are a colonized people. — Robin Morgan

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser

We must overcome social- and self-oppression if we are ever to join the ranks of the free souls who love their lives and lead their people. — Brendon Burchard

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand. — Jimmy Carter

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war? — Gloria E. Anzaldua

When people have been oppressed for so long; they become immune to it.They sometimes see oppression as the alternative means to oppressed others. — Henry Johnson Jr

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people — Alexander Mackenzie

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. — Martin Luther King Jr.

How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character! — Israelmore Ayivor

God afflicts people for a reason — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. — Lydia Maria Francis Child