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.

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.

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

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

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

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

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?

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.