Quoty: quotes tagged with 'oppression' Quoty search results for tag: oppression http://www.quoty.org/tag/oppression We know through painful experience that freedom...Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Source: http://www.mediastudies.org/packages/first/curricula/education...
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/3091
When the legislative and executive powers are u...Author: Charles Montesquieu, Source: Federalist Papers #47
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/2653
War is the health of the state.Author: Randolph Bourne, Source: "Unfinished Fragment on the State," in Untimely Papers (New York: B.W: Huebsch, 1919).
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/2503
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nat...
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.
Author: Abraham Lincoln, Source: Abraham Lincoln: a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/2479
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial politi...Author: Martin Luther King, Jr, Source: Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/1887
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I s...Author: Martin Luther King, Jr, Source: "I Have a Dream" 1963
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/1885
It was during those long and lonely years that ...Author: Nelson Mandela, Source: Long walk to freedom (1995)
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/1878
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal ...Author: Bertrand Russell, Source: Essay, Freedom in Society
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/1824
God will have a free people, and while we have ...Author: John Taylor, Source: Journal of Discourses 23:239
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http://www.quoty.org/quote/1494