Oppressing Quotes
37 quotes by 29 authors
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
— Richard Cobden
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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
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There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always…
— James T. Rapier
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The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like…
— Malcolm X
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the…
— Desmond Tutu
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
— Assata Shakur
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The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that…
— Errico Malatesta
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If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive…
— Noel Ignatiev
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Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
— Jef Raskin
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It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops…
— Scott McClellan
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Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might…
— Odysseas Elytis
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The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way.…
— John of Kronstadt
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
— Bernard Berenson
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We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is…
— Gordon Klingenschmitt
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed…
— Os Guinness
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God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
— Desmond Tutu
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Who Wrote These Oppressing Quotes
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