Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 419 authors

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. — Hosea Ballou
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for… — Gerry Adams
All oppression creates a state of war. — Simone de Beauvoir
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy… — Harry Belafonte
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. — Harry Belafonte
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. — Theodore Bikel
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech… — Louis D. Brandeis
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. — Luis Bunuel
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. — Jimmy Carter
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind… — Hillary Clinton
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition… — Alexander Hamilton
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic… — Aberjhani
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never… — Alexander Hamilton
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by… — Thomas Sowell

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