Oppression Quotes

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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

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

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

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

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

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

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

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.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.