Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. — Kate Millett
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by… — Toni Morrison
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. — Vladimir Nabokov
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. — V.S. Naipaul
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. — Ingrid Newkirk
While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects… — Carre Otis
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent… — Thomas Paine
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized.… — Shimon Peres
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. — William Penn
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. — James K. Polk
I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now,… — Queen Rania of Jordan
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function… — Ayn Rand
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an… — Mitt Romney
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. — Carl T. Rowan
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to… — Jonathan Sacks
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a… — Jonathan Sacks
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and… — Margaret Sanger
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. — Anna Sewell
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever… — Lysander Spooner

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