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«Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Society
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class, class feeling, conspiracies, conspiracy, degrade, denied, enforced, enforcing, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, organized, organized society, prevails, property, rob
«They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit..»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Nature
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heresy, oppress, preach, pulpit, pulpits, take up, unjustly, whereby
«Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.»
«Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: / He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.»
«Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.»
«Those that oppress the hireling in his wages.»
«Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.»
«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.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
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advancement, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, debar, debarred, hamper, hampered, hampering, hampers, numerical, oppress, privileges, proceeds, superiority, voters
«The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Freedom
| Keywords:
betters, oppress, the mob
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