Oppression Quotes - Page 2

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?

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

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.

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.

Oppression is the essence of power.

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.

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

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

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.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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