Oppression Quotes

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

All oppression creates a state of war.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

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?

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

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.

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.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

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

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

Oppression is the essence of power.

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.

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

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.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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.

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.