Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal fates.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.