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It is not Islam that oppresses Muslim women, it is the lack of knowledge or the lack of application of that knowledge that oppresses.
— Na'ima B. Robert
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
— Adam Hamilton
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
— Gustave Flaubert
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
— Manuel Puig
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him.
— Isaiah Berlin
Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.
— Pessoa, Fernando
Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry.
— Victor Hugo
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';
— Paulo Freire
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
— Gautama Buddha
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
— Nataly Kelly
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
— Bob Devaney
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
— Stephen Harper
And the woman in the vegetable shop, she oppresses me all the time.
— Terry Pratchett
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
— Chinua Achebe
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
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
— Friedrich Engels
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
— Arthur Hugh Clough
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
— W. Somerset Maugham
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?
— Rabindranath Tagore
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
— Carl Jung
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
r Be gracious to me, O God, for man s tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;
— Anonymous
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
— Emily Dickinson
If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.
— Kevin Bales
I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
— Malick Sidibe