Oppression Quotations | Page 2

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

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

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

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

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; . . . the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.

And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppressions, and there prevail justice and Faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression

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.

standing in line is a form of oppression

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

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

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

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

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.

All oppression creates a state of war.

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

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

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.

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.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

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

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

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.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Women are a colonized people.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

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.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

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.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

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.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

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?

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

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.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.

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.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Oppression makes a poor country.