A Quote by June Jordan
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
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... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.
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