Oppression Quotes
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!
The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.
They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.
It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.