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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
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So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,…
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The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of…
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By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
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Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
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Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to…
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Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure…
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Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with…
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There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined…
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to…
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You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
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That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If…
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…
— Malcolm X
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I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge…
— Freeman Dyson
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this…
— Frei Betto
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We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.
— Remi Kanazi
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All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When…
— George W. Bush
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the…
— Edith Wharton
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May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land,…
— George Washington
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Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but…
— Alessandro Manzoni
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