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- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
- 1820 July 31st, The Times, № 10,999, page 2/5:
- The document we allude to is an official note from the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to the Spanish Ambassador at that Court, declaratory of his Imperial Majesty’s sentiments on the subject of the Spanish revolution. This paper was published by the Government of Naples just two days before the completion of the revolution there, for the manifest purpose of overawing the reformists, and putting down the effort to relieve their country from oppression.
2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters[1], Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 95–96:"Tibet challenges the conscience of the world," I told the audience at a gathering outside the town's main temple. "If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world."
