Oppression Quotes

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

White people covered the earth like lice.

The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.

Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence?

We preach revolution but whine about the oppression in the name of change

The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow.

When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.

We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.

If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries, ' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

A hero is one who can never stop fighting for truth no matter the oppression

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the Pe

ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

When opposition presses (OPPRESSION) one has to persevere, press, push back but never allow yourself to be pressed like a grape unless the juice is your victory wine.

Remember: Oppression thrives off isolation. Connection is the only thing that can save us.

You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.

Society's revenge matched its fright.

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.

An individual excels where the institution fails.

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana

I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

When a nation is under oppression for too long, it gets used to it and begins to agree with that oppression