Oppression Quotes
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
