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There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people. – Joel Kim Booster	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He can’t just use that as a defense, he wasn’t court appointed to oppress her or abuse her or torment her. – Sarah Wentz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're fighting for a future in which technology can be used to uplift, and not to oppress. – Sneha Revanur	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it. – Adam Smith	added by Normando 2 years ago
We need change in this broken system, it was built to oppress us. It was built against us. Oftentimes we see people who are supposed to protect and serve... they do the total opposite. – Brandon Williams	Found on CNN 3 years ago
...[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country. – Fisher Ames	added by Normando 3 years ago
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people. – George Mason	added by Normando 3 years ago
I think the U.S. cares nothing about human rights, it is only using this as a pretext to oppress Chinese companies, destabilize Xinjiang and slander China's Xinjiang policy. – Zhao Lijian	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is only using this as a pretext to oppress Chinese companies, destabilize Xinjiang and slander China's Xinjiang policy. – Zhao Lijian	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
COVID-19 pandemic is just a drama and no such virus exists as Corona. It is history's biggest fooling propaganda done to harass and oppress common people. – Probarb	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Train movement through lockdown has been suspended only to further harass and oppress the poor population. – Indian Stats	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Pompeo and other American politicians use state security as an excuse and use state power to oppress Chinese high tech companies, we are firmly opposed to this, their actions have no factual basis, it's just smearing and political manipulation aimed to maintain the State Mike Pompeo monopoly in high-tech. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When you see a white person here you think Bery Glaser're coming with the biggest opportunities, so people like Bery Glaser are able to use their privilege to oppress and exploit our people, the Ugandan government should be doing thorough and proper checks on Bery Glaser backgrounds at home [ before granting visas ], and also the work these people are doing in our communities. – Olivia Alaso	Found on CNN 4 years ago
[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity. Despotism, therefore, appears to me peculiarly to be dreaded in democratic times. – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 4 years ago
When officials pursue personal interest and thus oppress the common people, this above all is the beginning of the end for a nation. – Yagyu Munenori	added by Mattd6422 4 years ago
I have never had an experience like that, but I knew that I had to speak for my people and for all people who white supremacists would wish to oppress or destroy altogether, i stood up to them for the same reason I'm standing against the scholarship at my university. – Sarah Stein	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In my opinion, culture is an instrument that is used to oppress, and especially to oppress women. – Khoabane Theko	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Maybe 30 or 40 years ago there were actually more fishermen or farmers in Hong Kong. Now society has changed so much but they still retain this system, this framework to oppress the views of the people. – Drake Leung	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The expansion of regularly scheduled flights to Cuba is an obvious attempt to circumvent the tourism ban, similarly, allowing cruises to dock in Cuba would violate both the spirit and the letter of U.S. law. Increased travel to Cuba directly funds the individuals and institutions that oppress the Cuban people. – Mario Diaz-Balart	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
With every report that Dr. Shaheed releases, it becomes more and more evident how systematic human rights violations are structured under the Iranian dictatorship, the world community with leadership by the Obama administration has thrown human rights under the Persian rug -- literally. Democracy promotion has been sacrificed for the sake of talking endlessly to those who oppress Iranians terribly. – Saba Farzan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The world community with leadership by the Obama administration has thrown human rights under the Persian rug -- literally. Democracy promotion has been sacrificed for the sake of talking endlessly to those who oppress Iranians terribly. – Saba Farzan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress. – Vanna Bonta	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system. – Franklin D. Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass	added by anonymous 10 years ago

There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people.

– Joel Kim Booster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He can’t just use that as a defense, he wasn’t court appointed to oppress her or abuse her or torment her.

– Sarah Wentz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're fighting for a future in which technology can be used to uplift, and not to oppress.

– Sneha Revanur

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

– Adam Smith

added by Normando
2 years ago

We need change in this broken system, it was built to oppress us. It was built against us. Oftentimes we see people who are supposed to protect and serve... they do the total opposite.

– Brandon Williams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

...[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

– Fisher Ames

added by Normando
3 years ago

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

– George Mason

added by Normando
3 years ago

I think the U.S. cares nothing about human rights, it is only using this as a pretext to oppress Chinese companies, destabilize Xinjiang and slander China's Xinjiang policy.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is only using this as a pretext to oppress Chinese companies, destabilize Xinjiang and slander China's Xinjiang policy.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

COVID-19 pandemic is just a drama and no such virus exists as Corona. It is history's biggest fooling propaganda done to harass and oppress common people.

– Probarb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Train movement through lockdown has been suspended only to further harass and oppress the poor population.

– Indian Stats

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Pompeo and other American politicians use state security as an excuse and use state power to oppress Chinese high tech companies, we are firmly opposed to this, their actions have no factual basis, it's just smearing and political manipulation aimed to maintain the State Mike Pompeo monopoly in high-tech.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When you see a white person here you think Bery Glaser're coming with the biggest opportunities, so people like Bery Glaser are able to use their privilege to oppress and exploit our people, the Ugandan government should be doing thorough and proper checks on Bery Glaser backgrounds at home [ before granting visas ], and also the work these people are doing in our communities.

– Olivia Alaso

Found on CNN
4 years ago

[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity. Despotism, therefore, appears to me peculiarly to be dreaded in democratic times.

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
4 years ago

When officials pursue personal interest and thus oppress the common people, this above all is the beginning of the end for a nation.

– Yagyu Munenori

added by Mattd6422
4 years ago

I have never had an experience like that, but I knew that I had to speak for my people and for all people who white supremacists would wish to oppress or destroy altogether, i stood up to them for the same reason I'm standing against the scholarship at my university.

– Sarah Stein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In my opinion, culture is an instrument that is used to oppress, and especially to oppress women.

– Khoabane Theko

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Maybe 30 or 40 years ago there were actually more fishermen or farmers in Hong Kong. Now society has changed so much but they still retain this system, this framework to oppress the views of the people.

– Drake Leung

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The expansion of regularly scheduled flights to Cuba is an obvious attempt to circumvent the tourism ban, similarly, allowing cruises to dock in Cuba would violate both the spirit and the letter of U.S. law. Increased travel to Cuba directly funds the individuals and institutions that oppress the Cuban people.

– Mario Diaz-Balart

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

With every report that Dr. Shaheed releases, it becomes more and more evident how systematic human rights violations are structured under the Iranian dictatorship, the world community with leadership by the Obama administration has thrown human rights under the Persian rug -- literally. Democracy promotion has been sacrificed for the sake of talking endlessly to those who oppress Iranians terribly.

– Saba Farzan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The world community with leadership by the Obama administration has thrown human rights under the Persian rug -- literally. Democracy promotion has been sacrificed for the sake of talking endlessly to those who oppress Iranians terribly.

– Saba Farzan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

– Vanna Bonta

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

– Frederick Douglass

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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