Oppression Quotes · Page 26

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial…

— Thabo Mbeki

I think the thing about systemic oppression is that inclusion is purposeful, but so is exclusion.

— Nia DaCosta

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view…

— Rowan Atkinson

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be…

— Alexander Hamilton

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much…

— Ron Paul

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he…

— Thomas Paine

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty…

— John McCain

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different…

— Sidney Poitier

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in…

— Neil Jordan

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating…

— Mitt Romney

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this…

— Frederick Lenz

There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or…

— Charlotte Cotton

In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are…

— Nicholas Kristof

Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary…

— Sam Smith

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in…

— George W. Bush

All socialism involves slavery… That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation…

— Herbert Spencer

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I will never say that progress is being made. If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it…

— Malcolm X

In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in…

— Clementine Ford

“BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky…

— Visar Zhiti

“One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and,…

— James Baldwin

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,…

— Wendell Berry

“As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.”

— Paulo Freire

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

— Thomas Jefferson

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

— Slavoj Zizek

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

— Richard Dawkins

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like…

— Desmond Tutu

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

— Ephraim Mirvis

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response

— Julian Assange

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a…

— Matt Haig

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

— Luke Treadaway

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

— Isabel Paterson

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

— Steven Magee

“So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.”

— Emma Goldman

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can…

— Paulo Freire

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

— Lucretia Mott

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic…

— Gerald Stern