Oppression Quotes
Oppression Quote of the day
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.