Oppressive Quotes

162 quotes by 145 authors

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge… — Rajneesh
Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and… — Gayle Rubin
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under… — Gerry Spence
It's oppressive. ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to… — Debora Spar
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic,… — Kirkpatrick Sale
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence… — Unknown Author
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they… — Bell Hooks
One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming… — Robert K. Greenleaf
Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean,… — Brad Alan Lewis
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was… — Adam Beach
For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly… — Norman Mailer
Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection… — Robert H. Schuller
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a… — Federica Montseny
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with… — Sigmund Freud
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is… — Audre Lorde
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead… — Gregory Palamas
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as… — Derrick Jensen
To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves… — Mark Galli

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