Oppression Quotes · Page 6

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

— Jimmy Carter

“The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.”

— Cream

“The oppressor will always despise their victims.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”

— Christine de Pizan

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

— Jose Marti

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Patriarchal structural oppression operates in such a multiplicitous and slimy way.

— Emma D'Arcy

Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.

— Tim Hawkins

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

— Toni Cade Bambara

“Sex, like color, is a meaningless criterion and an oppression criterion when it is made a condition for a job,”

— Lynn Povich

What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white…

— Vivek Shraya

When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

— Raphael Warnock

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in…

— Eve Ensler

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we…

— Stacey Abrams

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must…

— Frederick Douglass

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of…

— Robin Morgan

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get…

— Cornel West

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized…

— Horace Greeley

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without…

— Herbert Hoover

We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or…

— Robert Conquest

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in…

— William Blake

Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,…

— Wilford Woodruff

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now…

— Pope Francis

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

“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the…

— Wilhelm Reich

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson

“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,…

— Jon Ronson

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

— Noam Chomsky

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

— Dean Spade

“We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.”

— Richard Wright

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

— Robert J. Shiller

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

— Anonymous

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

— Edward Coke

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

— V. S. Naipaul

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor,

— Jon Stewart

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

— Cherrie Moraga