Quotes About Suppression

Whether the idea was taken from the Spanish Inquisition whose methods it so resembled or from the example of the Russian secret police, whether it sprang from Himmler's own zealotry, it was a deliberate policy designed to suppress by fear all actual or potential opposition or even criticism of the regime.

If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God.

But trying to eliminate anger never works. The more you try to suppress it, the more likely it is to erupt later in a more virulent form. A better approach is to become as intimate as possible with how anger works on your mind and body so that you can transform its underlying energy into something productive.

From all this historical evidence, it ought to be clear that depression is often the central mood characteristic of adults whose bodies were assaulted, whose wills were broken in childhood, and whose anger was forcibly suppressed. The rage and resentment never disappear; they just take more covert and dangerous forms, dangerous to the self and, potentially, to others.

the Die-Hards cited the fact that it took five times the number of British troops to suppress the Boer guerillas.

Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist

Es una cosa terrible enterrar algo dentro de ti y nunca dejarlo salir. Es mejor hacerle frente, para gritarlo y gritarlo y para llorar y dejarlo salir. Para ambas. No es bueno guardar las cosas en una botella, porque cuando la botella se llene, puede explotar como un volcán.

I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Restoring the rights of individuals who have served their time and reentered society is the right thing to do. Virginia's felon disenfranchisement policy is rooted in a tragic history of voter suppression and marginalization of minorities, and it needs to be overturned.

To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real.

The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so.

Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.

Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

In order to maintain American democracy we need to tackle the problematic influence of big money donors, corporate political action committees and dark money contributions. We must put an end to partisan gerrymandering and the blatant attempts at voter suppression being pushed in Republican-led states across the country.

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.