Oppression Quotes
Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.
Not being treated as equal IS oppression
Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?
Christie: “Even if he is – aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?
It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?
If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.
No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.
You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.
Saying, “I don’t agree with you, ” or going so far as to say, “I think your belief structure is childish, ” does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression.
For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.
... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.
When free men stand, they will always carry on and lift Liberty yet unfree men shall always struggle to fight for freedom and liberty until they attain it.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?
P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.
If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.
What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow.
Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.
A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.
All my contemporaries—hundred-and-fivers or convicts—will tell you how we livedin barely sentient fear, raisingchildren for the executioner, prison, or the torture chamber.
Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.
In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.