Oppression Quotes
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As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
Isabel Paterson
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That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
Simone de Beauvoir
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When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.
Chokwe Lumumba
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You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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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
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
Jimmy Carter
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Oppression is the essence of power.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Helen Keller