Oppression Quotes · Page 21

What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

“Sex, like color, is a meaningless criterion and an oppression criterion when it is made a condition for a job,”

— Lynn Povich

When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

— Raphael Warnock

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white…

— Vivek Shraya

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in…

— Eve Ensler

We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we…

— Stacey Abrams

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a…

— Bertrand Russell

My parents brought my sister and me to the United States to escape the communist takeover of Cuba. They sought to build…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom,…

— Ronald Reagan

What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from…

— Camille Paglia

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an…

— Harry Oppenheimer

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical…

— Dan Brown

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When anarchists are having a debate, they're having a debate about tactics, 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?' The question…

— Vijay Prashad

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because…

— Rosemarie Garland Thomson

“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was…

— Frantz Fanon

“So if the traditions and culture of the Eastern community are blindly compelled to hurt a woman’s dignity, insult and degrade her…

— Huda Sharawi

I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want…

— Michael Moore

As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual…

— Audre Lorde

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is…

— Mao Zedong

It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

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

— Rose Kennedy

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

— Leon Trotsky

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

— James Madison

“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”

— N.K. Jemisin

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

— Che Guevara

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

— Malcolm X

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And…

— Rudyard Kipling

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

— Thomas Paine

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

— Assata Shakur

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

— Rosa Parks

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they…

— Bertolt Brecht

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

— Eric Hoffer

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

— Paulo Freire

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

— Rita Mae Brown

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';

— Paulo Freire

“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would…

— Theodore Roosevelt