Oppression Quotes · Page 20

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

— Anne Nicol Gaylor

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to…

— Juan Somavia

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

— Jodie Turner-Smith

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

— Bram Fischer

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

— Rich Lowry

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

— Assata Shakur

The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.

— Park Yeon-mi

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse…

— Carre Otis

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation…

— Francisco Goya

In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being,…

— Maysoon Zayid

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In…

— Robin DiAngelo

I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems…

— Henry Giroux

Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,…

— Pope John Paul II

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what…

— Simone Weil

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved…

— Malcolm X

Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even…

— Frederic Bastiat

“The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to…

— Friedrich Engels

This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at…

— Bell Hooks

By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of…

— Lillian B. Rubin

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.…

— Kate Chopin

Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our…

— Nelson Antonio Denis

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of…

— Herbert Marcuse

If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice…

— Raj Thackeray

“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars…

— William Penn

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Che Guevara

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression…

— Anne Applebaum

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms…

— Che Guevara

“To give a thing to one who is not fit for it and not to give a thing to one who is…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

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

— Paulo Freire

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

— Toni Cade Bambara