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Oppression Quotes

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John F. Kennedy

Commitment Tolerance Oppression Own

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Business Now Say Oppression See

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

I Am Stupid Philosophy Oppression

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

Today Doing Civilization Oppression

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Freedom Tyranny New Oppression Ruler

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Woman Black Know Oppression Being

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

William O. Douglas

Change Darkness Oppression Become

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

Mind Law Will Oppression Protect

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Lysander Spooner

Government Law Oppression Protect

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

Political Solution Oppression Way

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Evil Oppression More Genocide Policy

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

Music Simple Stupidity Oppression

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

Oppression Fables Periods Writes

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

Religion Enlightenment Oppression Two

We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.

Strength Commitment Long Oppression

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

Suffering Me World Oppression Bear

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

Want Oppression Hatred Precious Own

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

I Am Trying Stop Oppression More

All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

War Oppression State Creates

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.

Michel Foucault

New Oppression Become Invisible

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

Care Violence Innocent Oppression

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Coretta Scott King

Past Vote Oppression Wallace George

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Candle Mind World Reading Oppression

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

World Humanity Oppression Reason

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