Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by… — Roy Ayers
Oppression is the essence of power. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with… — Joan D. Chittister
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street,… — Inga Muscio
Letâ€™s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression. — Dean Spade
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life… — Peter Ho Davies
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered… — Amir Butler
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,… — Ludwig von Mises
A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all. — William Wilberforce
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? — Audre Lorde
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -… — Bell Hooks
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our… — Emma Goldman
Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the… — Nelson Mandela
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance. — Gary Haugen
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness… — Alice Miller
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and… — Dalai Lama
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. — Assata Shakur
I donâ€™t claim to know an over-arching â€˜Meaning of Life,â€™ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the… — David G. McAfee
Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as… — Unknown Author
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its… — Theodore Roosevelt

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