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• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  Tacitus

  Men, Desire, War On Drugs

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• 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

  Freedom, Patriotic, Equality

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Quality, Feminine, Should

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• In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Reality, Order

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  Sam Houston

  Texas, May, Submission

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• A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Soldier, Argument, Handful

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 19, 1799.

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• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Freedom, Block, Home

  "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.

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• The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Responsibility, Doe, Tasks

  Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books

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• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Time, Freedom, Fighting

  "Shut Down Chick-fil-A Properly" by James Peron, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2012.

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• The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Hands, Gravity

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

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• When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Limits

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations" edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

  George Haven Putnam

  People, Heaven, Littles

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Joseph Addison

  Political, Politics, Lasting Love

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.286

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

  Anna Sewell

  Cruelty, Interfere

  Anna Sewell (2016). “Black Beauty”, p.68, First Avenue Editions

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• The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

  Hosea Ballou

  Freedom, People, Important

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• America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Country, Freedom, America

  Speech on September 26, 1891. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 269, 1990.

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• 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 Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Rights, Absence

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• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  Oliver Tambo

  Black, Discrimination, Economic

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• In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

  Randall Terry

  Eye, Law, Tyrants

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• War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

  Margaret Sanger

  War, Limits, Poverty

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

  Bo Gritz

  Believe, Long Ago, Information

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• God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

  Luis Bunuel

  God, Teamwork, Country

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.153, Random House

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• Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

  Rita Dove

  Adversity, Order, Literature

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• 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.

  William Penn

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.446

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