Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community… — Abraham Lincoln
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not… — Assata Shakur
Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class… — Bell Hooks
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Competition is merely the absence of oppression. — Frederic Bastiat
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that… — Thomas Paine
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by… — Pope Francis
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression! — Pope Francis
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is… — Grace Lee Boggs
That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much… — Laurie Penny
Half the Sky: Â Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide — Gary Haugen
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger… — Peter Mullan
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice — Edward Coke
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but… — Clarence Darrow
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we… — James Cromwell
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood.… — Herbie Hancock
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel

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