(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of…

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

— William Penn

“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of heaven, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Oppression makes a poor country.

— William Penn

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

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

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