As there is oppression of the majority such oppression…

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

— William E. Gladstone

When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity,…

— Theodor Herzl

“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force…

— Richard Morgan

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression…

— Ludwig von Mises

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will…

— Edmund Burke

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal…

— Eleanor Smeal

There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think…

— Janelle Monae

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually…

— Bell Hooks

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of…

— Seyla Benhabib

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

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

— Robin Morgan