Oppression Quotes

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Oppression makes a poor country.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.