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

Malcolm X

Power

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

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.

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.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Sam Houston

May

Oppression

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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.

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.

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.