Oppression Quotations

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

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

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

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.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

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.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

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.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Never underestimate internalized racism. People can be oppressed, yet continue to express their oppression in their own choices.

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

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.

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

stand by Iraq and tell America that we will not allow this oppression and aggression to continue.

Pillow Girl. It's a statement on sexuality and femininity, the oppression of women. It lets you read so many things into it.

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

We continue to believe that what has happened to our teammates is the result of the actions of the U.S. and U.K. governments in their illegal attack on Iraq and the continuing occupation and oppression of its people.

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

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

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.

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

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

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

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.

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.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Where Tony Blair is, is propping up Bush in the continuation of oppression and injustice in the Middle East that is feeding the anger of the world.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

This award is a victory for poor women; it's a victory for all women, ... End oppression with education.

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

The world is more compassionate and hopeful when we act together, ... The lesson is clear - there can be no safety in looking away or seeking the quiet life by ignoring the oppression of others ... We must extend a vision of human dignity.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

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.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

The idea that you work in the house of the master is almost in itself its own opportunity to do some mischief and make a difference, but when you are in that place and you help perpetuate the master's policy that perpetuates oppression and pain for many others, then something has to be said about it, ... And the master in this instance, of course, was the president of the United States.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

It sets a precedent, that Wal-Mart will not be permitted to violate the laws of California the way they did here, and the jury found that they had intentionally, with malice and oppression and fraud, violated the laws of the state of California.

When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth.

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily

We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

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

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Oppression is the essence of power.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.