
I am for the largest liberty for the poor man — for the oppressed.
– Lewis Tappan
Related Quotes:
- When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. – Ignatius of Loyola
- But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed. – Henry Van Dyke
- All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. – shaikh mustafa
- There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair. – HG Wells
- Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. – Ernest Becker
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S – Benjamin Franklin
- I’m convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. – Justin Steckbauer
- Jesus not only preached liberty, but has the authority to direct history toward its final victory. – The Liberty Book
- A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. – Daniel Webster
- Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. – Charles Caleb Colton
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. – James Madison
- [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
- A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Old: Give me liberty or give me death. – New: Give me liberty or give me debt. – Orrin Woodward
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. – Victor Hugo
- The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others – Sunday Adelaja
- Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The electrical grounding system is the largest radio frequency (RF) radiation antenna system ever constructed in the history of mankind. – Steven Magee
- The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world – Firas Alkhateeb
- A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths. – Mark Rubinstein
- …even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I’d placed under my life’s leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery. – Joseph ONeill
- We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering. – Helen Keller
- Earth is the largest being on this planet. – Toba Beta
- Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When people don’t understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they’re still oppressed. – Gugu Mona
- The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
- The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. – Ernest Becker
- Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
- No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? – Ambeth R Ocampo
- Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
- He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. – Isabel Allende
- Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. – Jonny Steinberg
- Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? – Paolo Freire
