Oppressed Quotes

382 Oppressed quotes by 257 unique authors

I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine… — Lee Maracle
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed — Rose Kennedy
There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the… — David Berg
I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed… — David Berg
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their… — Ann Radcliffe
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. — William Shakespeare
It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than… — Eric Hoffer
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means… — Marcus Garvey
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against… — Norman Vincent Peale
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders -… — Paul Craig Roberts
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk… — Laura Schlessinger
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could… — William Butler Yeats
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the… — Mark Twain
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx

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