“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers” PeopleGivingDoeStrongForcePowerRightsSecurityPoliticianAuthorityPoliceHuman RightsOppressionRegulationViolationRepressionPolice ForceSecurity Systems Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.” FeelsMindPersonsLawPracticeRightsGroupsCreatingIncreaseBoundariesOppressionSecureLiberationImpulseBarriersParadoxRestrictionProtective Author:Jacques Barzun
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.” IfsMenShouldMindHumansWould BeLastsLawPeaceSilenceRightsSecurityUniversalFoundationHuman RightsTyrannyOppressionOppositionRebellionDeniedProtectedDeclarationCompelledAssuranceResortsRule Of LawRecoursePeace And SecurityClosed MindDeclaration Of Human Rights Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves” ShouldFoundFatherRightsViolenceMankindEqualMercyPrivilegeConvincedCriminalsOppressionGuiltyFraudDistributionBenevolenceBrethrenCaptivityGroaningRights And PrivilegesDetaining Author:Benjamin Banneker
“Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.” HumansMeanRightsEconomicBuiltAbuseStructureWestHuman RightsTyrannyOppressionGlobalization Author:Jeremy Seabrook
“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” Would BeLawRightsProtectEqualMajorityCivil RightsOppressionMinoritiesOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.” PoliticalWinningGivenRightsBattleDiscriminationOppressionMinorities Author:Gloria Allred
“There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsHumansLooksImportantDifferentHuman BeingsAcceptingClassRightsGroupsAwarenessDrawsMajoritySuperiorsOppressionOur FutureParallels Author:Janelle Monae
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.” MenChildrenProblemSocialParentCasesRightsMastersUniversalPropertySlaveOppressionSocial ProblemsDisregarded Author:Maria Montessori
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.” PeopleKnowsWayValuesRightsTeachingSecurityExerciseAuthorityConstitutionVariousBurdenOppressionInevitableInvasionConvenienceDisregardProceeding Author:George Washington
“There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.” CausesRightsGroupsRootsOppressionWomens RightsRoot Cause Author:Anne Nicol Gaylor
“The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.” ThinkingWarSometimesCertainGivenLibertyRightsResistanceOppressionAlternativesRighteousImmoralPacifist Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.” MenBelieveMayGovernmentCertainI BelieveLibertyRightsProtectLimitsFunctionIndependenceMajorityPropertyOppressionSoleDeclarationLegislatureDeclaration Of IndependenceInalienable RightsUsurpation Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” MindWould BeLawPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyPrinciplesCasesRightsBearsProtectEqualSacredMajorityEqualityCivil RightsOppressionReasonableMinoritiesPatrioticOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityEqual ProtectionPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.” WorldSoulTodayLastsHumanityBeliefRightsMovementNeededAngryViolentCivil RightsOppressionWorld TodayCivil Rights MovementVindictive Author:Neale Donald Walsch