Sentence examples for escape tyranny from inspiring English sources

Not all Americans' ancestors came here to escape tyranny; many were brought here in furtherance of tyranny.

It was the peoples of eastern and central Europe, after all, who suffered greatly from dispossession, and who had to walk hundreds of miles or escape across the Iron Curtain to escape tyranny and persecution.

After all, growing up in post-war Fife I'd been friends with plenty of kids with East European names, but broad local accents, whose parents or grandparents had migrated to escape tyranny or merely to find jobs.

Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The earliest Americans came to this continent to escape tyranny, aristocracy and plutocracy.

America has always been a beacon of hope to people throughout the world who yearn for freedom and seek to escape tyranny and oppression.

"People who moved here from the former U.S.S.R. thought they were escaping tyranny," Mr. Kruger said.

Zainab Salbi, the co-author of "Between Two Worlds: Escaping Tyranny, Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam," is the founder and chief executive of Women for Women International.

Addressing blacks and liberals worried about his record on affirmative action, he spoke of his family escaping tyranny in Europe and his lifelong fight against discrimination.

As Daniel Jeremy Silver wrote in "A History of Judaism" (Basic Books, 1974): "The Exodus expressed God's will to save, the urgency of freedom, the possibility of escaping tyranny, and God's anger with every form of social abuse".

In eight years time the world may finally see him for the true freedom fighter that he is, things will be different, it is only through the bravery of people like Assange, Manning and Snowden that we have a chance of escaping tyranny..