Oppression Quotes

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

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

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

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.

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

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

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.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

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.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

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

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.

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.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

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.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.