Oppression Quotes

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Meridel Le Sueur

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl T. Rowan

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Rose F. Kennedy

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

William Blake

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

Anna Sewell

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.

Hosea Ballou

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

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

Martin Luther King Jr

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Unknown

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Bible

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

James Baldwin

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

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

Joseph Addison

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis BuÒuel

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

John Locke

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

Joseph Addison

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.

Thomas Paine

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Clarence Darrow

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Tacitus

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X