Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites… — Eugene Jarecki
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from… — Edward Snowden
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
One writes fables in periods of oppression. — Italo Calvino
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression. — Amanda Lindhout
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. — Henry Rollins
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest… — Jed S. Rakoff
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. — David Harsanyi
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. — Richard Dawkins
Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as… — Thomas Woods
When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for… — Michael Leunig
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a… — Tim Wise
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. — Tim Wise
When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression. — Unknown Author
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression. — Thabo Mbeki
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of… — Alexander Mackenzie
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause… — Joel Barlow
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst… — Arthur Henderson
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the… — Daniel Ortega
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a… — Neil Tennant

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