Deeper Quote by Hosea Ballou

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

— Jimmy Carter

Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature…

— Michael Parenti

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

— Jean Rostand

Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.

— Dave Rubin

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of…

— Albert Einstein

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting…

— Learned Hand

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

— Junius

Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an…

— Hannah Arendt

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

— Coretta Scott King

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced.…

— Barack Obama

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of…

— John Stuart Mill

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing…

— John Stuart Mill