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«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
«He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.»
«Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Bashan, crush, kine, needy, oppress, Samaria
«In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: oppress, tribes
«Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, / That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? / Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: / For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: counsels, oppress, plead
«For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; / If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: / Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.»
«He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: balances, deceit, merchant, oppress
«For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; / And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: / Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? / Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? / But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? / Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? / If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: / But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.»
«Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? / Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? / Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, / That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? / Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: oppress
«Fortune, that with malicious joy, Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: oppress

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