It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.
Anton Balasingham
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.
James H. Cone
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Martin Luther King Jr
The worst government is 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.
Henry Louis Mencken
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
Seneca
Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.
William Pinkney
Oppression is more easily borne than insult.
Junius
One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression
William Blake
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
Diane Sawyer
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.
Learned Hand
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
Friedrich Nietzsche