Oppression Quotes
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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.
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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.
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As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
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The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
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All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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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.
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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.
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Oppression is the essence of power.
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You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
