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~ Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition ~ ~ A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~ ~ The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ~ ~ One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~ ~ Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ~ ~ There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed ~ ~ One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression ~ ~ Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ~ ~ The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ~ ~ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
~ ~ It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people. ~ ~ Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ~ ~ The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important. ~ ~ It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~ ~ Oppression can only survive through silence. ~ ~ All oppression creates a state of war. ~ ~ Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. ~ ~ No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ~ ~ God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. ~ ~ Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression ~ ~ He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong ~ ~ A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake ~ ~ 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 ~ ~ Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ~ ~ Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. ~ ~ No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ~ ~ The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ~ ~ An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ~ |
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