Oppression Quotes

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Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression. — Isabel Paterson
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom. — Jose Marti
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
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€˜I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymenâ€“â€“Whites and Blacksâ€“â€“to recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united… — August Bebel
John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and oppression. The guy… — Jon Lajoie
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. — Jeff Cooper
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism… — David Horowitz
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil… — Desmond Tutu
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by… — Frederick Douglass
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. — Eric Hoffer
Logic has nothing to do with oppression. — Gloria Steinem
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,… — Booker T. Washington
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without… — Confucius
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get… — Florynce Kennedy

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