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oppresses
1. “Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me; fighting all day long he oppresses me (Psalm 56:1)
2. He who oppresses the poor
3. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in
4. When a landed nation on the contrary, oppresses, either by high duties or by prohibitions, the trade of foreign nations, it necessarily hurts its own interest in two different ways
5. It neither favours the great, nor oppresses the smaller dealer
6. the bones; he who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker; but he who honours him has mercy on the poor; the wicked is driven
7. fall into it; foolishness is tied into the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him; he who oppresses the poor
8. The poor man who oppresses the
9. But instead, he oppresses them
10. beings as Persons, no longer endowed with phallic power that oppresses and
11. That’s why a bad thought oppresses
12. Bombarding people with incessant whines for help and complaints of lack oppresses them with fear, impotence and panic
13. He oppresses the weak who are under his leadership (his brothers, his students, or his workers), and inclines to harm all of the animals, especially cats, just to oppose God’s messenger’s direction (cpth): “Be kind and generous with the cat (the male and the female)
14. As long as poor people do not realize they are a class… then this nominal success of the exception: the one-in-a-hundred long shot, this belief in random, blind, meaningless luck rather than hard work, this addiction to lotteries, and gambling… this belief in struggling within a system which oppresses them… without tearing down that system to its roots… will keep the billions of poor: Poor forever
15. In short: every authority figure, every evil elite class that oppresses the masses, and stands as an icon of unquestioned respectability
16. Every human who is rich: and oppresses and terrorizes those beneath them into states of abject fear and paranoia and servitude: have something to hide: and are all guilty of committing crimes against humans less powerful and poorer than they are
17. directly supporting the evil that oppresses billions, including yourself
18. This is why the current world system so flagrantly oppresses Africans, Arabs, and other non-
19. "Well," said Beauchamp, "what still oppresses you, my friend?"
20. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry
21. "You know that capital oppresses the laborer
22. And so this man, without the least compunction, and without any misgivings as to his being believed, arranges an agricultural exhibition, or a temperance society, or through his wife and children sends jackets and soup to three old women, and in his family, in drawing-rooms, committees, the press, boldly preaches the Gospel or humane love of one's neighbour in general, and of that working agricultural class in particular which he constantly torments and oppresses
23. To live as do the rich, idle people, especially the women, far from nature and from animals, in artificial conditions, with muscles atrophied or misdeveloped by gymnastics, and with enfeebled vital energy, would be impossible were it not for what is called art—for this occupation and amusement which hides from them the meaninglessness of their lives, and saves them from the dullness that oppresses them
24. And these lines occur at the end of a passage in which the king laments the "ceremony" that oppresses him and confesses that but for it he would be "but a man
25. Here are all men free, and none oppresses the others or keeps them in slavery; but money appears in society and immediately an iron law exists, in consequence of which rent increases and wages diminish to the minimum
26. What will result from the circumstance that I, and another, and a third, and a tenth man, do not despise physical labour, but consider it necessary for our happiness, for the calming of our consciences, and for our safety? This will result from it,—that one, two, three, ten men, coming into conflict with no one, without violence either of government or of revolution, will solve for themselves the problem which is before all the world, and which has appeared unsolvable; and they will solve it in such a way that life will become for them a good thing: their consciences will be calm, and the evil which oppresses them will cease to be dreadful to them
27. Where can the necessary supply of cotton be procured? For, thank God! while we are making a sacrifice of that article, it goes to the injury of Great Britain who oppresses us, and whose present importation is not equal to one-half her ordinary consumption
28. The gentleman told you, in speaking of the Maryland elections, that the film is removed from the eyes of the people, and that in discerning their true interests, they saw it was the embargo, and not the Orders in Council, which oppresses them
29. According to the bearings and variations of those lights, should the statesmen of such a country adjust their policy—always bearing in mind two assurances, as fundamental principles of action, which the nature of things teaches, that, although temporary circumstances—party spirit, local rivalries, personal jealousies, suggestions of subordinate interests—may weaken, or even destroy, for a time, the influence of the leading and permanent interests of any great section of the country, yet those interests must ultimately and necessarily predominate, and swallow up all these local, and temporary, and personal, and subordinate considerations; in other words, the minor interests will soon begin to realize the essential connection which exists between their prosperity and the prosperity of those great interests which, in such sections of the country, nature has made predominant; and that no political connection among free States can be lasting, or ought to be, which systematically oppresses, or systematically refuses to protect, the vital interests of any of the sovereignties which compose it
