Oppression Quotes · Page 23

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

— Bram Fischer

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the…

— John Jay Chapman

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.

— Park Yeon-mi

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

— Bertolt Brecht

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason…

— Leymah Gbowee

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…

— Henri Nouwen

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

— Ezra Pound

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral…

— Nelson Mandela

He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

— Ben Fountain

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

— Che Guevara

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman.…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— DaShanne Stokes

“The only terrorism I have personally witnessed in the USA has come from corrupt corporations and their government minions.”

— Steven Magee

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of…

— Elie Wiesel

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation…

— Edmund Burke

We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as…

— Carol J. Adams

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often…

— Albert Einstein

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

— Paulo Freire

It's no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time…

— Aisha Hinds