Oppression Quotes

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.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

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.

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.

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.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

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

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

All oppression creates a state of war.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.