Oppression Quote by Confucius

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object…

— Confucius

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the…

— Bertolt Brecht

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

— George W. Bush

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

— Hany Abu-Assad

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

— Margaret Cho

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

— Ruth Gordon

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is…

— Nelson Mandela