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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
We are not intoxicated by power. We are concerned about the betterment of the poor, marginalised, oppressed, farmers, women, those living in villages, and every section of society.
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.
It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.
With a whirl of thought oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead.
Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are.
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.