Applying the apartheid label is incorrect—and is also confusing because it obscures the tyranny which is in force.
The Bill of Rights, and especially the First Amendment, were intended to protect the powerless from the tyranny of the powerful.
It also called for the establishment of laws and institutions that might protect minorities against the tyranny of the majority.
“Either you stand with freedom, or you side with tyranny,” Miller wrote on his Facebook page in March.
His social snapshots reveal the unhappy repercussions of tyranny and poverty in a picturesque Africa.
But there is really no need to choose between anarchy and tyranny.
I want to liberate Englishmen so far as I can from the tyranny of Shakespeare's greatness.
Who drove us into the arms of Athens, when we were hard pressed by the tyranny of Thebes?
That cause, he said, was the liberation of Greece from the tyranny of Athens.
A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
late 14c., "cruel or unjust use of power," from Old French tyrannie (13c.), from Late Latin tyrannia "tyranny," from Greek tyrannia "rule of a tyrant," from tyrannos "master" (see tyrant).
