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Oppression Quotes by Assata Shakur
- I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was…
- People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
- Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
- Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
- It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not…
- People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think…
More Oppression Quotes
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou
- In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams
- All oppression creates a state of war. — Simone de Beauvoir
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. — Harry Belafonte
- I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel
- Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
- God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. — Luis Bunuel
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke