The Moors appear to oppress the Manguianes of Palawan much as the Christian natives do the Manguianes of Mindoro.
There is noted amongst these people a strong sense of morality and honesty, which unfortunately is not recognised by their Christian neighbours, who are accustomed to oppress them with the most exaggerated usury.
The thought that millions of people commonly well informed on general matters, still believe in this barbarous myth, must shock and oppress like an incubus every sensitive and well-informed mind.
It may do with those that are strong to oppress their own subjects, but it will not do when you come to deal with foreign nations.
You will see it, having chained and conquered princes, league itself with them, in order to oppress the people, and seize on temporal power.
What warmth--yet it does not oppress you: what coolness--yet it is not too cool.
The width and length oppress you: they crush down your struggling self-consciousness like Titans dealing with Pygmies.
For now a feeling which I had not reckoned with came to oppress me--the fear of death.
And it is said, "My princes shall no more oppress My people; and the rest of the land, shall they give unto the house of Israel, according to their tribes.
The king hath his distinct possessions and revenues from the people; he must not oppress and do what he pleaseth, there must be no tyranny upon the throne.
Between those who oppress and those who are oppressed there is but a difference of place.
If it is employed to oppress them, they will suffer in a double sense.
Is it not consoling to think that up to that point, and under the empire of freedom, it is not in the power of one class to oppress another?
Suffering from the wounds which have been inflicted upon them, they undertake to cure each of their members by conceding to him the right to oppress his neighbour, and call [p322] this Solidarity and Fraternity.
The Egyptians, from whose bondage the people had been delivered, were again permitted to oppress Israel.
Again did Jehovah permit the heathen to oppress Judah.
Will not ambition stir other nations, when they find their power to oppress her?
Quite absurd," you would say, "to oppress a beast of burden with such an extra load.
Executive writs could be issued when they ought to be, and not be made instruments of cruelty to oppressthe innocent, and persecute men whose religion is unpopular.
So we crept from the sepulchre in which the perfumed air had begun to oppress us and sat ourselves down upon the floor of the cave, where for a while we remained silent.
The divine right of kings to their throne, and the unlawfulness of deposing them, however much they might oppress the people for whose benefit they were appointed to rule, was a doctrine first taught in the time of the Stuarts.
It is from our enemies and from those who oppress us, that we exact tribute; and when they do not give we take.
The real solution of the race problem lies in the children, both so far as we who are oppressed and those who oppress us are concerned.
The cotton fields and sugar farms now maintained by the Negroes will eventually be deserted by them, if the whites continue to oppress them.
The conclusion from this would be, that it is better to oppress the poor than to give to the rich, a sentiment quite out of harmony with the ethical teaching of the Proverbs.
Rob not the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the humble in the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and despoil of life those that despoil them.
Yet what is that case, the case of a man matched in duel with the enmity of a malicious fellow-creature--naturally his inferior, but officially having means to oppress him?
Hence the right of self-defense in case of attack, of repelling and restraining by force whatever violence may threaten oroppress them.
True pride asks for nothing more than to be free from oppression; false pride wants to oppress others.
