Oppressed Quotes

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.