I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.
Khaled Hosseini
WomenI AmLawViewOppression
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams
StrugglePastEyeBlindOppression
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
PoliticalEarthVoteOppression
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Nawal El Saadawi
WomenPowerYouOppressionReligions
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
bell hooks
PeopleFreeBlackGoalOppression
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston
TexasLearnOppressionSourceMay
The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.
Malcolm Jenkins
PeopleLearnIgnoreOppressionHard
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark, Jr.
BlackBluesOppressionSoundRights
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
John Henrik Clarke
PeopleYouOppressionFirstConvince
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
John Polanyi
TechnologyScienceRespectOppression
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan
PeopleGroupOppressionSomething
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
LegalAuthorityOppressionHeavy
As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.
Donald Trump
PowerViolenceOppressionProtect
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Bryan Cranston
WrongKindOppressionCivil Rights
Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.
Sharan Burrow
WealthBackOppressionAbuseOff
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
Tim Wise
OppressionTurnAgainstWhoSystems
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
RacismOppressionPrejudiceNation
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.
Eugene Jarecki
LifeOppressionAgainstSoviet Union
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
Alexander Mackenzie
RespectPeopleNothingOppression
I hate systemic oppression in America.
Lecrae
HateAmericaOppressionSystemic
Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
Yair Lapid
WomenCareFestivalsOppressionLeft
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
Sabine Baring-Gould
SonCrownOppressionHimAnswerHis
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett
WomenEndingRevolutionOppression
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
Florynce Kennedy
OppressionBecomeSystemUnnecessary
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