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Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror,… — Cheryl Clarke
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries.… — Julie Bindel
Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do. — Bill Willingham
He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he… — Marcus Sakey
Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. — Roger Enrico
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses… — Jonathan Mayhew
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering.… — Edgar S. Brightman
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from… — Aristotle
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus… — Peter Fenn
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. — Sophocles
The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take… — Edward Snowden
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point… — Saul Alinsky
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. — Hunter S. Thompson
Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept… — Alan Keyes
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. — Victoria Woodhull
Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete… — Heber J. Grant
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,… — Benjamin Franklin
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. — Maggie Gallagher
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance… — Ginny Brown-Waite
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may… — Abraham Lincoln

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