Oppression Quotes
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.
Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.