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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good Silence People Oppression Bad People Good People Cruelty Bad Over Ultimate Tragedy

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert Kennedy

Hope Time Man Injustice Ripple 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 Resistance

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

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

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

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

Prevail Rights Oppression Law Mind Will Minority Too Possess Though Rightful Must Would Would-Be Cases Bear Sacred Equal Protect Majority Equal Rights Principle Which Reasonable Violate

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Confucius

Oppression Feel Sorrow Sink Should

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness. William O. Douglas

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. Malcolm X

Freedom Oppression Tyranny Power Conviction Action Defense Our Uncompromising Greater Because Real Than Behalf Real Power Which Produces

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. Abraham Lincoln

Life Nature People Oppression Tyranny Power Down Add Bitter Would See Shackles Borne Rather More Tend Weight Crush Make Greater Than Yoke Burdens Anything Them Raise

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. Michel Foucault

Oppression Become Invisible New Normal Domination Which Forms

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

Oppression Those Like Oppress Dislike Who Many Among

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster

War Bible Injustice Oppression Crime Men Ambition Precepts Neglecting Evils Miseries Contained Vice Proceed Which Suffer Slavery

All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir

War Oppression State Creates

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis D. Brandeis

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. Nelson Mandela

Love People Oppression Result Political Tyranny Calm Situation Exploitation Spirit Sabotage Had Arisen Because Nor Years Deny Political Situation Did Any After Sober Plan Planned Whites Many Assessment Violence

Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference. Haile Selassie

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