Oppressed Quotes

382 quotes by 257 authors

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. — Sheila Rowbotham
Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age of 18 or… — Grace Llewellyn
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is… — Grover Cleveland
The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We… — Nelson Mandela
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause… — Jan Hus
Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for… — Muhammad Ali
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius Loyola
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my… — Martin Luther
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going… — Huey Newton
We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing.… — Huey Newton
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the… — Monique Wittig
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or… — John Brown
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women — Lorraine Hansberry
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day… — Tammy Baldwin
Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete… — Heber J. Grant
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance… — Ginny Brown-Waite
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle… — Paulo Freire
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour… — Albert Einstein

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