Pastoral Resources

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.