All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice crime ambition injustice oppression slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me a big part of it is information knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

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

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent they are making America more secure.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Women are oppressed in the east in the west in the south in the north. Women are oppressed inside outside home a woman is oppressed in religion she is oppressed outside religion.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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.

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.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.