When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

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.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

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

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.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

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.

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

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.

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

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

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.

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.

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

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

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

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

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

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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.

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.

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

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.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.