Oppression Quotes
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P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. — Paulo Freire
As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.
— Marjorie Spiegel
We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression.
— Hillary Clinton
You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Oppression makes a poor country.
— William Penn
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
— Harold H. Bloomfield
It seemed that freedom of expression had run amuck, or had run as far as the Government would allow it to go.
— Kenneth Eade
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
— Sheila Jeffreys
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
— Che Guevara
But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury.
— James Oscar Boyd
The fight for equality on any front does not equate to the oppression of the oppressors.
— Luvvie Ajayi
To give a thing to one who is not fit for it and not to give a thing to one who is fit for it is equally oppression.
— Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
— Abraham Lincoln
He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
— Nelson Mandela
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
— Italo Calvino
Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.
— Marty Rubin
The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
— Darnell Lamont Walker
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
— Molly Crabapple
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
— Frederic Bastiat
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
I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.
— Clarice Taylor
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
— Bryan Cranston
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
— Lerone Bennett Jr.
Fear doesn't excuse a hundred years of oppression and abuse.
— Jodi Meadows
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
— Che Guevara
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
— Luis Bunuel
Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
— Assata Shakur
White people covered the earth like lice.
— Louise Erdrich
He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so ...
— George Orwell
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
— Theodore Bikel
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
— Vaclav Havel
Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.
— Salman Rushdie
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Histories are instruments of oppression.
— Catherynne M Valente
The oppressor is never as free as they think they are
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Oppression doesn't make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we'll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.
— Victor LaValle
In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.
— Lundy Bancroft
Oppression is opposition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
— Charles Colson
No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
— S. Alice Callahan
For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.
— Auliq Ice
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
— Edward Abbey
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
— Angela Merkel
When a nation is under oppression for too long, it gets used to it and begins to agree with that oppression
— Sunday Adelaja
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.
— Neill Blomkamp
They wouldn't do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them." As if that's how oppression works. But
— Fredrik Backman
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.
— Mary Daly
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
— William Shakespeare
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
— Adrienne Rich
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
— DaShanne Stokes
When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.
— Bryant McGill
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
We do not require man's religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Time and oppression are the fathers of rebellious invention.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
— Derrick A. Bell
Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
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
If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.
— Adam Snowflake
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.
— M.F. Moonzajer
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
— Criss Jami
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!
— Pope Francis
Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?
— Christina Engela
Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
— H. Rap Brown
Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.
— Lauren Oliver
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
— Amanda Lindhout
If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
— Alexander Hamilton
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
— Simone De Beauvoir
