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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

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens. — Sheila Jeffreys

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb. — Ma Jian

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

Society's revenge matched its fright. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people. — Mike Fitzpatrick

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? — Audre Lorde

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public. — Cecily McMillan

Convention is a jealous god and, like Saturn, eats its babies. — Marty Rubin

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

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami. — Charlie Sheen

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

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. — Nelson Mandela

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. — ZIZEK

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather
it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. — John F. Kennedy

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening. — P. J. O'Rourke

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries. — Ayn Rand

Oppression is more easily endured than insult. — Junius

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. — Luke Treadaway

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. — Audre Lorde

One writes fables in periods of oppression. — Italo Calvino

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings. — Marty Rubin

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor. — A.R. Bernard

She's an engineer of oppression, and one of the best minds of Gold. And she tried to kill Sevro. Bad play. — Pierce Brown

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 charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes. — Roger Casement

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

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur

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

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

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. - — Anna Sewell

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

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny. — Shawn Stewart Ruff

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett Jr.

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression. — Auliq Ice

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor, — Jon Stewart

The Empire pretends it's about law and order, but at the end of the day, it's about dressing up oppression in the costume of justice. The — Chuck Wendig

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings. — Auliq Ice

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them. — Andrea Dworkin

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. — Emma Goldman

...oppression is really quite simple. It's about looting. — Aurora Levins Morales

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark Jr.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. — Hosea Ballou

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. — V.S. Naipaul

I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression. — Jessica Anderson

Let's be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression. — Dean Spade

Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973. — Philippa Gregory

Where oppression does not completely and permanently break the spirit, has it not a natural tendency to produce retaliatory pride and contempt? — C.S. Lewis

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. — Anne Nicol Gaylor

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. — Bell Hooks

As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence. — Allan G. Johnson

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami

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

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — Aldous Huxley

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

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free. — Auliq Ice

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition. — Diane Sawyer

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

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression. — Zainab Salbi

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

Within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation. — Susie Orbach

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

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

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

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

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

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed. — Umar

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

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free. — Yaa Gyasi

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

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom. — Jose Marti

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

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. — Karl Marx

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you. — Dave McKean

They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig