Oppression Quotes

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

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

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

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

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

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

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

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

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

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

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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.

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.