Oppression Quotes

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Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That… — Errico Malatesta
It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent idea I shall… — Theodor Herzl
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the… — Monique Wittig
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. — Phillis Wheatley
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female… — Marilyn Frye
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first… — Friedrich Engels
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression,… — James H. Cone
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet… — Wilford Woodruff
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge… — Camille Paglia
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection… — Benito Mussolini
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle… — Paulo Freire
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Benjamin Harvey Hill
When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are… — Sarojini Naidu
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great… — William O. Douglas
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air… — William O. Douglas
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths… — Margaret Thatcher
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often… — Storm Constantine
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear,… — Harry Hay
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empiresâ€¦ But what history really… — Mumia Abu-Jamal

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