Oppression Quotes - Page 5

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

standing in line is a form of oppression

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; . . . the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

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

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

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

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

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

Women are a colonized people.

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