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There’s no education around this, for authorities or normal people, just a mindset and tradition that oppresses women into thinking they must stay silent no matter what, i have a daughter. I had to change my mindset and spread what I have learned because I don’t think she’d be safe in the current environment. – Seup Sokha	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by Normando 4 years ago
I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. – Colin Kaepernick	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color, to me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. – Colin Kaepernick	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The number of Christians in Iran is estimated at between 200,000 and 500,000, out of an overall population of nearly 78 million. Although the Islamic Republic’s constitution guarantees on paper that Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism are protected religions, the application of Sharia Law — or Islamic Law — relegates the members of the minority religions to second class citizens. The historical term for a subjugated non-Muslim religious minority member living in an Islamic society is dhimmi. In response to multiple FoxNews.com media queries about the convicted Iranian Christians, Hamid Babaei, head of the press office in the Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York, declined to comment. Saba Farzan said the latest crackdown is further affirmation that the current talks between the U.S. and Iran on lifting economic sanctions in exchange for guarantees Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons can not proceed in good faith. They never made sense and never will, Saba Farzan said. The West can't discuss arms control with a leadership that oppresses religious minorities and human rights activists. – Benjamin Weinthal	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
My vision of Islam is very different from what many people in the West think, many think Islam oppresses woman and restricts their freedoms, but this is because of traditions that have nothing to do with Islam. – Merieme Addou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Add to this the measures France has taken to protect itself against the insider threat it faces, including banning the niqab (veil or mask), plus the usual complaints that Western religious freedom actually oppresses Muslims by exposing them to what they find morally reprehensible, and there you get the reason for their repeated, triumphal rejection of France. – Veryan Khan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses. – Richard K. Morgan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. – Wendell Phillips	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- – Emily Dickinson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. – C. G. Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. – Carl Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There’s no education around this, for authorities or normal people, just a mindset and tradition that oppresses women into thinking they must stay silent no matter what, i have a daughter. I had to change my mindset and spread what I have learned because I don’t think she’d be safe in the current environment.

– Seup Sokha

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
4 years ago

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

– Colin Kaepernick

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color, to me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.

– Colin Kaepernick

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The number of Christians in Iran is estimated at between 200,000 and 500,000, out of an overall population of nearly 78 million. Although the Islamic Republic’s constitution guarantees on paper that Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism are protected religions, the application of Sharia Law — or Islamic Law — relegates the members of the minority religions to second class citizens. The historical term for a subjugated non-Muslim religious minority member living in an Islamic society is dhimmi. In response to multiple FoxNews.com media queries about the convicted Iranian Christians, Hamid Babaei, head of the press office in the Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York, declined to comment. Saba Farzan said the latest crackdown is further affirmation that the current talks between the U.S. and Iran on lifting economic sanctions in exchange for guarantees Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons can not proceed in good faith. They never made sense and never will, Saba Farzan said. The West can't discuss arms control with a leadership that oppresses religious minorities and human rights activists.

– Benjamin Weinthal

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My vision of Islam is very different from what many people in the West think, many think Islam oppresses woman and restricts their freedoms, but this is because of traditions that have nothing to do with Islam.

– Merieme Addou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Add to this the measures France has taken to protect itself against the insider threat it faces, including banning the niqab (veil or mask), plus the usual complaints that Western religious freedom actually oppresses Muslims by exposing them to what they find morally reprehensible, and there you get the reason for their repeated, triumphal rejection of France.

– Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.

– Richard K. Morgan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

– Wendell Phillips

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

– Emily Dickinson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

– C. G. Jung

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

– Carl Jung

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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