Oppressed Quotes

382 quotes by 262 authors

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when… — Dalai Lama
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.… — Cesar Chavez
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who… — Cesar Chavez
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of… — Karl Marx
Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel… — Alan Cohen
And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. — Leonard Cohen
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic… — Ella Baker
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.… — Thomas Jefferson
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of… — Pope Benedict XVI
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing… — Robin Morgan
When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed… — John Edgar Wideman
At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that no… — Keith Boykin
Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say… — David Pocock
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens

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