Oppression Quotes

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

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.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

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.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

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

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

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.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

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

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

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

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

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

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.