Inexorable Quote by Simone Weil

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not…

— George Orwell

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

— Assata Shakur

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

— Leo Tolstoy

Oppression is the essence of power.

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

“But the more significant factor is that one can easily remain free of even the most intense political oppression simply by placing one’s faith…

— Glenn Greenwald

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

— Joseph Addison