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Oppression Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression.…
- Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if…
- We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
- How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall…
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- 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