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The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
George Jackson
Savage
Black
Reading
Nation
Fred
Obituary
Blacks
Columns
Failed
Hampton
Repression
Estimated
Which
Etc
Register
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Freedom
Discipline
Behavior
Philosophy
Direction
Gives
Gospel
Repression
Regard
Plan
Many
Appetite
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
Hilary Mantel
Time
Regret
Collective
Sense
Our
Tap
Anxieties
Going
Common
Repression
My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.
Hisham Matar
Political
Parents
Settled
Nine
Libya
Left
Escaping
Repression
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
Ike Skelton
Government
Together
Country
Owes
Fighting
Back
Put
Also
Forces
Insurgency
Iraq
Debt
Decades
American
Repression
After
Coalition
Coalition Forces
Who
Helping
Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.
Jamal Khashoggi
Intimidation
Never
Acceptable
Reform
Repression
Should
Companions
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression.
Justin Cartwright
Memory
Simple
Three
Few
Older
Settled
Valley
Some
Houses
Repression
Place
Notable
Victorian
Fleeing
Streets
Early
Recent
Two
The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.
Ksenia Sobchak
Machine
Only
Putin
Stopped
Repression
Even
Started
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue
Religion
Saw
Open
Idolatry
Cracked
Repression
Again
Stalinism
Early
Repression is the enemy of civilization - so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
Marc Platt
Love
Today
Dreams
Humanity
Enemy
Compassion
Tomorrow
Will
Our
Our Lives
Dream
Dreaming
Civilization
Because
Provide
Repression
Stories
Keep
Lives
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
War
Faith
People
Desperate
Own
Defeat
Inside
Spirit
Horror
Remain
Never
Armed
Accepted
Intact
Exile
Years
Won
Six
Transcendent
Repression
After
Spain
If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.
Matt Roper
Love
Free
Strangers
Would
Total
Perform
Comedians
Were
Truly
Repression
Roomful
Inherent
Need
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Faith
Equality
Liberty
Responsibility
Must
Feed
Longer
Come
Denied
Where
Repression
Bread
Place
Public
Them
Ask
Now
Violence
When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
Nazanin Boniadi
Freedom
You
Yourself
Ensuring
Find
Prevails
Escape
Committed
Often
Repression
Loved
Loved Ones
Your
Power tends to get confused with repression.
Olivia Wilde
Confused
Power
Tends
Get
Repression
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.
Orlando Jones
Religion
Oppression
Tyranny
Tool
Out
Oppressed
Repression
Stamp
Save
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
Philip Kaufman
Time
Great
Me
Rage
Back
Our
Our Time
Relevance
Out
Seemed
Something
Great Story
Like
Looks
Another
Another Time
Coming
Just
Where
Repression
Story
Expression
Film
Now
Set
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Rand Paul
History
Racism
Country
Rose
State
Jim
Local
Jim Crow
Local Governments
Laws
Crow
Were
Governments
The History Of
Repression
African-American
Bigoted
Product
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
Samuel P. Huntington
Culture
Opportunities
Country
Society
Other
Immigrants
Economic
Economic Opportunities
Generations
Attracted
Subsequent
Repression
Europe
Including
Among
Things
Here
The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.
Sara Pascoe
Love
Culture
Passion
Restrictions
Repression
Created
Elizabeth
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
Stephen Kinzer
Army
Power
Brazil
Increasing
Late
Chaos
Latin
Latin America
Economic
Argentina
Unrest
Throughout
Forced
Causing
Were
Dominican Republic
Salvador
America
Repression
Republic
El Salvador
Peru
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Honduras
I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
Tawakkol Karman
Fruit
Women
Men
Possible
Similar
Both
Civilization
Relying
Without
Always
Women And Men
Effort
Human
Repression
Human Civilization
Against
Believed
Resistance
Violence
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White
World
Made
Men
Wrecks
Only
Never
Failed
Force
Repression
Reason
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Terrorism
Increasingly
Settlements
Colonial
Brutal
Support
New
Policy
Condemned
Yes
Wall
Repression
Translated
Really
Should
Palestinian
Rejected
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.
Noam Chomsky
Army
Conservative
Unofficial
1990s
More
Devastating
Category
Countryside
Kosovo
Kurdish
Falls
Kurds
Very
Than
Repression
Estimates
Turkish
Capital
Flight
Peaked
Million
Early
Early 1990s
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam Chomsky
Government
People
World
Late
State
States
Worst
Hideous
1990s
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Some
Percent
Atrocities
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Namely
Massive
Arms
Terror
Terrorist
Coming
Go
Were
Itself
Refugees
Repression
Turkish
International
United
United States
Millions
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