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Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.
James Cromwell
Celebrate
Women
Oppression
World
Men
Live
Other
Environment
Until
Operate
Learn
Feminine
Stop
Children
Anyone
Themselves
Aspect
Chooses
Species
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Jane Rule
Oppression
Political
Our
Way
Out
Solution
More
More And More
Coming
Offered
It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Change
Oppression
Light
Whatever
Society
Way
Systematic
Possible
Fabric
Only
Shedding
Very
American
Ingrained
Create
Really
American Society
Deeply
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
Oppression
Cause
Men
Power
Lose
Once
Destroys
Moral
Physical
Totally
Habitual
Protecting
Discerning
Forces
Themselves
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.
Joseph Brodsky
You
Oppression
Fatigue
System
No Exception
Perfect
Exception
Longer
Term
Discover
Subject
Man-Made
Cracks
Which
Your
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Selfish
Oppression
Money
Other
Others
Consisting
Cost
Almost
Houses
Always
False
Acquired
Persons
Lands
Riches
Means
Used
Thereafter
In Venezuela, we either accept domination, total oppression and torture... from Maduro's regime, or we choose freedom, democracy, and prosperity for our people.
Juan Guaido
Freedom
Democracy
People
Oppression
Prosperity
Our
Our People
Torture
Total
Venezuela
Accept
Domination
Either
Regime
Choose
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius
Oppression
Easily
More
Insult
Than
Endured
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Racism
Oppression
Nation
Our
Sexism
Divisive
Still
Really
Prejudice
It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.
Justin Simien
Oppression
Minority
About
Attempt
New
New Thing
Speaks
Vilify
Thing
Life experiences with oppression and homophobia often become internalized and can have detrimental effects on the development of positive sexual identity for Southern black gay men.
Karamo Brown
Positive
Life
Gay
Oppression
Black
Men
Become
Sexual
Life Experiences
Detrimental
Development
Identity
Effects
Southern
Often
Experiences
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett
Women
Oppression
Ending
Revolution
Emancipation
Sexual
Sexual Revolution
Also
Chief
Begins
Patriarchy
Victims
Who
Homosexual
While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.
Kathleen Hanna
You
Experience
Yourself
Oppression
World
Complicated
Believe
Everyone
About
Beyond
Learn
Privilege
Often
Different
While
Much
Really
Need
The left takes credit for being the political aisle promoting human rights and fighting oppression, but in the case of Cuba, its adherents promoted oppression and human rights abuses for decades by glorifying the Castro regime and its savage enforcer, Che Guevara.
Katie Pavlich
Savage
Rights
Oppression
Political
Fighting
Human Rights
Aisle
Promoted
Promoting
Case
Castro
Takes
Abuse
Cuba
Glorifying
Left
Decades
Human
Being
Regime
Credit
Rights compliance helps effective outcomes, it does not hinder them. That should come as no surprise because the 'human rights' in the Human Rights Act are the rights adopted in the aftermath of the horrors of the second world war, and are designed to protect all of us from oppression.
Keir Starmer
War
Rights
Oppression
World
Human Rights
Compliance
Outcomes
Adopted
Horrors
Come
Protect
Hinder
Because
Does
Surprise
Effective
Human
Aftermath
Them
Us
Should
Act
Helps
Designed
Second
World War
Second World War
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
Kenny Marchant
War
Oppression
Enemies
Hatred
Radical
Corners
Allies
Globe
Ideologues
Terrorist
America
Movement
Against
Spans
Breed
Engaged
Violence
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.
Khaled Hosseini
Women
Oppression
Law
Elsewhere
Worse
Examples
Pointing
Leaders
Islamic
Female
Always
Am
Issue
Existence
Western
Very
Deny
Afghanistan
Justify
View
Notions
Avoid
Derived
Even
Even Worse
Basis
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Learned Hand
You
Injustice
Oppression
Mind
Doubt
Every
Cold
Relieve
Voice
Fact
Open
Open Mind
Leap
Disconcerting
Still
Breach
Cannot
Against
Standard
Keep
Ear
Raise
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Hate
Oppression
Fear
Koreans
Due
North
Cannot
Themselves
Help
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison.
Liu Xiaobo
Time
Needs
Oppression
Police
Job
Face
Prison
Oppose
Our
Spending
Spending Time
Those
Only
Part
Also
Learn
How
Opposition
Dictatorships
Movement
Confronting
Us
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel
God
Oppression
Country
Unbeatable
Records
Bloodshed
Break
Team
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.
Luvvie Ajayi
Love
Racism
Oppression
School
Black
Folks
Wearing
About
Blackness
More
Could
Through
Longer
School Years
Learned
Proudly
Years
Did
Afterthought
Consciousness
Started
Slavery
The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.
Malcolm Jenkins
People
Oppression
About
More
Through
Learn
Going
Really
Ignore
Hard
Actually
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.
Martina Navratilova
Myself
Oppression
Signs
Girl
Country
Living
Statues
Some
Russia
Haunting
Remembered
Moscow
Around
Were
Hammer
Very
Walked
Being
Little
Lenin
Far
Little Girl
Then
Communist
Now
Images
Kept
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.
Maysoon Zayid
Oppression
Win
Live
Muslim
Would
Disabled
New
Female
New Jersey
Gold
Gold Medal
Medal
Jersey
Palestinian
Olympics
In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being, am fighting against: oppression, religious rule, and patriarchy. They empower Israel while dividing the Palestinians.
Maysoon Zayid
Me
Hate
Oppression
Human Being
Fighting
State
Everything
Rule
Embody
Religious
Dividing
Empower
Disclosure
Am
Israel
Hamas
Human
Being
Patriarchy
While
Interest
Against
Full
Palestinians
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