Oppression can only survive through silence.

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

— Sharan Burrow

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…

— Tecumseh

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets…

— John Stott

I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience…

— Harry Belafonte

Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk…

— Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

— Harry Belafonte

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

— Malcolm X

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