Oppression Quotes

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; eve...

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

119When you bring together the national security state and the military-industrial complex, when you...

The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black Ameri...

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take side...

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises ...

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any s...

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us w...

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softene...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of th...

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...

e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibl...

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture ...

And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, se...

He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her an...

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bib...

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th...

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and huma...

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; w...

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned,...

When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the...

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some t...

The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either si...

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much...

But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually ...

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which...

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments,...

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, ...

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is...

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principl...

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can...

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usuall...

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many mira...

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

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the sp...

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, pa...

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark night...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

White people covered the earth like lice.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no...

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power...

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windo...

[T]he mothers who had sold their children felt empty and sad. They felt as if this act, done freely ...

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of pr...

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fea...

In asking me to contribute a mite to the memorial to Gutenberg you give me pleasure and do me honor....

In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts ...

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put...

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one s...

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empire...

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressiv...

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-som...

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppre...

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities t...

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an ou...

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, th...

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted in...

It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wro...

Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always som...

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing i...

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling o...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearfu...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unj...

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to ...

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that...

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the peo...

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus...

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us i...

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it i...