Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the… — Lysander Spooner
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their… — Lysander Spooner
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized… — Lysander Spooner
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is… — Lysander Spooner
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. — Tacitus
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. — Oliver Tambo
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. — Randall Terry
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. — Booker T. Washington
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… — Noah Webster
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world. — Neill Blomkamp
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates… — Philip Pullman
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their… — Lorraine Hansberry
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. — Ezra Pound
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that… — Stephen Fry
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to… — Robert A. Heinlein
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire

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