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Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
— Ivan Panin
Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
— Alexandre Dumas
Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.
— Randolph Bourne
Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God's children will one day fall.
— Jim George
You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
— Anonymous
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
— Charlotte Bronte
If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.
— Gregory A. Boyd
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
— Louisa May Alcott
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
— Imelda Marcos
To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.
— Pope Francis
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority
— Richard Stallman
I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
After all, it will be hard to oppress a generation who've been brought up on pop-stars with fire coming out of their tits.
— Caitlin Moran
Poverty is economic oppression.Tyranny is political oppression.
Oppose those who oppress others.
Support those who liberate others. — Matshona Dhliwayo
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
— Robert Herrick
When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All
— Desmond Tutu
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
— Nelson Mandela
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
— Barack Obama
Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.
— Matthew Henry
The more you oppressthe more they distress
and the more they protest
the more you detest. — Aram Seriteratai
... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation.
— Brian Clevinger
There is an old poor man, ... Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
— William Shakespeare
religion was created in order to share the mystery and to worship, not to oppress or convert others. The
— Paulo Coelho
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
— George Mason
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
— Rosa Parks
Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
— Alexander Hamilton
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
— Veronica Roth
Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
— Mikhail Bakunin
We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
— Heather Marsh
Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them. — Emma Frances Dawson
The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31)
— Marcus J. Borg
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
— Samuel Johnson
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
— Eric Hoffer
Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.
— Anthony Liccione
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
— James F. Cooper
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
— John Dryden
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
— Ovid
The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.
— George Fitzhugh
Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
— Cesar Chavez
How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
— Warren Farrell