Oppression Quotes

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.

Women are a colonized people.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.