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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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.
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment.
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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.
The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.
