Country Quote by William Penn

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

— Frederick Douglass

Oppression is the essence of power.

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

— Winnie Byanyima

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

— Rita Mae Brown

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

— Jimmy Carter

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the…

— Alva Myrdal

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor,…

— Thomas Paine

All oppression creates a state of war.

— Simone de Beauvoir