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A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow
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Joel Barlow
American
Poet
Born:
Mar 24
,
1754
Died:
Dec 24
,
1812
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Cause
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Men
,
Power
,
Lose
,
Once
,
Destroys
,
Moral
,
Physical
,
Totally
,
Habitual
,
Protecting
,
Discerning
,
Forces
,
Themselves
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Oppression
Walls
Build
Energy
Down
Other
Others
Strikes
Those
Out
Daring
Ripples
Crossing
He
Ideal
Lot
Up
Improve
Sends
Current
Tiny
Different
Centers
Against
Mightiest
Forth
Sweep
Stands
Each
Each Time
Acts
Million
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
Oppression
Enemy
Liberty
Will
Own
Duty
Guard
Secure
Must
Would
He
Reach
Make
Himself
His
Precedent
Even
Violates
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
Oppression
Enemy
Tyranny
Will
Fighting
Guise
Come
Foreign
Land
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
Vote
Rights
Oppression
Political
Minority
Earth
Minorities
Individual
Individual Rights
Smallest
Protect
Majority
Subject
Precisely
Public
Function
Away
Right
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
Government
You
Oppression
Result
Matter
Tyranny
Church
Say
Must
See
Know
Forbidden
Read
How
Motives
Subjects
End
End Result
Any
May
Holy
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
Commitment
Oppression
Own
Tolerance
Others
Rather
Implies
Condemns
Persecution
Lack
Beliefs
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.
John McCain
Justice
Rights
Dignity
Corruption
Reality
People
Oppression
World
Liberty
Opportunity
Hatred
Cruelty
Longing
Human Rights
Demand
Real
Real People
Human
Experienced
The Real World
Real World
Lived
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Rosa Parks
Disappointment
Hurt
Oppression
Madness
Take
Between
Line
Just
Much
Reason
Grows
Thinner
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Beautiful
History
Experience
Oppression
Will
Shall
Never
Another
Again
Land
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