Oppression Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

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

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

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