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Here are the quotes with the word oppression in them. To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — James Madison 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 In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. — Chen Ning Yang

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

-James Madison

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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

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In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

-Chen Ning Yang

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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

-Nelson Mandela

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It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

-Harry Oppenheimer

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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

-Malcolm X

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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

-Peter Kropotkin

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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

-Jonathan Sacks

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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.

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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

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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

-H.L.Mencken

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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

-Carl T. Rowan

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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

-Theodore Bikel

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Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

-Bob Riley

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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

-Joseph Addison

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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

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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

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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

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

-Vladimir Nabokov

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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

-Tacitus

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

-Arthur Henderson

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We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

-Shirin Ebadi

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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

-John Charles Polanyi

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If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

-Jonathan Sacks

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

-Confucius

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — James Madison
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
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. — Chen Ning Yang

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