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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. John Henrik Clarke

You People Will Power Once Take Powerful Powerful People Because Educate Educated Oppress Truly Afford Cannot Ask

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. William Hague

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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. Napoleon Bonaparte

Oppression Those Like Oppress Dislike Who Many Among

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. Charles B. Rangel

Justice Rights Equality Fear Young Way Intimidation Respond Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Brutally Klan Had Over Mississippi Sought Oppress Same Movement Workers Used Who

My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me to oppose those who work iniquity? Do you not know how that God will scatter the bones of those who strive to oppress Him? They shall be confounded, because the Lord hath despised them. Thomas Becket

Work God Me You Together Will Oppose Despised Those Strive Hath Rise Scatter Shall Know Him Because How Lord Oppress Up Against Confounded Them Stand Brethren Stand Up Who Iniquity Why Beloved Bones

Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are. Bret Stephens

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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. Jack Kingston

Nature Marriage People Harmony Systems Laws Segregation Perfect Brutally Institution Were Oppress Fits Whereas Thereby Designed Violated Slavery

Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But liberation, for them does not encompass destroying their identity, religion, or culture, and many of them want to retain the veil. Katharine Viner

I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Peace People Black Long Think Criminalize Disturbing Classroom Like Been Oppress Lot Historically Used Useful Recall

One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress. Mary Beard

You Women Power Those About Potential Tend Voices Clearly Most Female Terror Male Oppress Oppressive Lot Cultures Very Antiquity Afraid Working Certainly Many Shows Whom

In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before. Norman Davies

War Army People World Technically Before Liberates Ways Harshly Some General More Had Poland Oppress Than Begins Soviet Ends Happened Groups Population Incoming Second World War Second World War

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges. Oliver Ellsworth

Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities. Opal Tometi

Racism Black Web Policies Practices Oppress Communities Seamless Beliefs Level

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place. Ryan Murphy

Me Gay Women Somebody Feeling Down Related Put Like Because Felt Always Oppress Trying Being Place Keep Deeply

I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women. Sushmita Banerjee

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves, and ourselves, within it. Trevante Rhodes

Black Community Way Ourselves Has-Been Find Black Community Within Still Been Oppress Oppressed Themselves Really Who Unique

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. Warren Farrell

Women Men More Oppress Than Any

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