Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Ben Bella

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar

Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by mistrust: Indian politicians in Bengal refused to participate in the 1920 elections, and formally adopted a policy of boycott and non-cooperation.

Asma Jahangir
Asma Jahangir

General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.

Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

Barney Frank
Barney Frank

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

My mother began her political journey as a symbol of hope and resistance to the repressive, regressive, Islamist regime of General Ziaul Haq.

Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng

I'm fascinated by the ways people under repressive regimes still manage to share information - and joy.