Oppression famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
-- Alan King -
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
-- Anna Lindh -
Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.
-- Anna Louise Strong -
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
-- Anna Sewell -
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out...
-- Assata Shakur -
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
-- Assata Shakur -
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
-- Audre Lorde -
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
-- Bell Hooks -
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.
-- Bell Hooks -
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
-- Bobby Seale -
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
-- Bram Fischer -
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
-- Charles Dickens -
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
-- Che Guevara -
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
-- Cherrie Moraga -
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
-- Cherrie Moraga -
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
-- Chris Abani -
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.
-- Daniele Bolelli -
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
-- David Harsanyi -
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.
-- Dean Spade -
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
-- Edward Coke -
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
-- Fatos Nano -
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive
-- Florynce Kennedy -
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
-- George Orwell -
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
-- Harold H. Bloomfield -
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
-- Harry Belafonte -
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
-- Harry Belafonte -
The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.
-- Ice T -
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.
-- Inga Muscio -
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
-- Isabel Paterson -
We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.
-- Ismail Haniyeh -
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
-- James Madison -
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
-- Jane Rule -
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
-- John Charles Polanyi -
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
-- John Henrik Clarke -
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
-- Jonathan Haidt -
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.
-- Jose Marti -
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
-- Joseph Addison -
There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response
-- Julian Assange -
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
-- Karl Marx -
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
-- Kate Millett -
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
-- Lerone Bennett, Jr. -
Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
-- Linda McCartney -
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
-- Malcolm X -
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
-- Maria Montessori -
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!
-- Megan McCafferty -
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
-- Miriam Makeba -
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression
-- Mohammad Khatami -
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible
-- Monique Wittig -
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.
-- Monique Wittig -
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.
-- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani -
I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye -
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
-- Nelson Mandela -
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
-- Oliver Tambo -
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.
-- Paulo Freire -
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
-- Richard Dawkins -
The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
-- Robert H. Jackson -
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
-- Robin Morgan -
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
-- Robin Morgan -
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
-- Robin Morgan -
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
-- Robin Morgan -
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
-- Sam Houston -
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
-- Shirin Ebadi -
All oppression creates a state of war.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
-- Solomon -
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.
-- Storm Constantine -
... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.
-- Susie Orbach -
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
-- Tacitus -
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.
-- Tim Gordon -
Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.
-- Tim Hawkins -
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
-- Tim Wise -
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
-- Umar -
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.
-- William Powell -
A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all.
-- William Wilberforce -
There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.
-- Charlotte Cotton -
Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
-- Farah Diba -
As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.
-- Hany Abu-Assad -
Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk about what's wrong with America. Well, he's an athlete who is also saying something is wrong with America. Why is it that when he talks, people say, 'How can he talk about oppression and make millions?' Well, Trump is talking about it. Hillary Clinton is talking about it. And they have more money than most athletes.
-- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf -
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
-- Malachy McCourt -
I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated
-- Mukhtar Ma'i -
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.
-- Tennessee Celeste Claflin -
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.
-- Vladimir Sorokin -
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
-- Ameen Rihani -
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.
-- Andrew Bernstein
