Oppression Quotes - Page 6

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.