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...stupid in 1954" as he was then, cried Bevan. "We shall bring upon us a third and last world war by not realizing that you cannot do anything with these revolutionaries except to work with them, help them through their difficulties, and not make it necessary for them to oppress their own people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Long Whine | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...generally so smug about the "plight of women?" It truly exists. If men did not oppress women, there would need be no feminists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Opposition to Daniel F. Malan's Nationalist government of the Union of South Africa is beginning to scatter like a dandelion gone to seed. The Boer-dominated Nationalist Party has found the stumper for its United Front critics. When voices are raised against a new law to oppress and subdue the African Negroes, the Nationalists simply ask: "Well, do you want equality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa: Liberty or Death | 2/14/1953 | See Source »

Prior to the ballot, the press had attacked Bowen strenuously because of his unfriendliness to the Hungarian independence movement. He had written articles attacking Kossuth and saying that an independent Hungary would oppress 5,00,000 other people in south-eastern Europe...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Board of Overseers, Watchdog of University, Visits All Departments, Studies Complaints | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

...plays the police inspector who never forgets a face, is not particularly memorable himself. In a moving speech in criminal court, however, he presents the moral of the movie: immigrants must be made to understand that in a democracy the police protect and help the people rather than oppress them...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

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